It is very common in the day-to-day work with flow cytometry to use the same analysis layout to analyze many different data files (for example, CD3-CD4-CD8 determinations in a clinical setting, where this panel of stains is repeated for different patients, or to test for the expression of the same surface markers after different treatments). In order to facilitate this type of analysis, FCS Express has the Panels option. Panels allow you to rapidly change all of the data on a particular layout to a new set of data.

In order to use the panels feature in FCS Express, you will first set up the number of tubes that you are working with, and then create the plots and other elements on the layout. Once that is done, you will be able to load another set of data with just a few mouse clicks.

You can also set up a panel after the layout has already been created.

 

In the first section, we will set up the panel.