![]() (Sorry, you didn’t get that with the beta.Radio-frequency identification ( RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. There’s one on the program CD if you don’t have one already. ![]() If you want PDF output, choose a PDF printer driver. “Print all sheets from selected” and “Print report sheets from selected” do what they say. If you’re not picky it’s easy to just select all the plots and turn on all the stats. Make sure you’re showing the stats you want to display before you export. “Export statistics from selected” will produce a single file containing the displayed statistics from each analysis. (The usual Windows SHIFT-click, CTRL-click, CTRL-A shortcuts work here.) When you have more than one analysis selected, the display is replaced by several buttons: Just load the files you want to process and select them in the analysis list. UPDATE: (From Ernie Anderson, BC) FYI, batching stat and PDF output is pretty easy. Or, if you’d like to get a demo copy of your own, visit click on demo request. I’ll probably load the software on one of our analysis computers so people can play around a bit if they’d like. Until then, if you’re just dying to try something new, let me know. The speed of analysis is a tempting feature for potential converts, but I may hold off until version 1.x or maybe 2.0 and see what happens. I have a feeling, the 1st adopters will probably be Coulter hardware users and disgruntled FlowJo users. Panels, Protocols, Tests, are all used in a strict clinical sense, and don’t always translate directly to the research world, so figuring out what is what took a bit of effort on my part. Also, being from Coulter, the nomenclature of certain things is definitely derived from the clinical world, which takes some getting use to. However, it is definitely not as powerful as the batching options in FlowJo (their words, not mine). Perhaps now that it is out of beta, and user manuals are being put together, I’ll be able to play around with that more. Apparently batching stats and pdfs are possible in the software, but i haven’t quite figured that out yet. There are a few things I’m a bit unclear of at this point. Things like tabbed analyses, the radial menu, and ‘office-like’ ribbon menus make performing simple tasks inside the software, well, simple. The second thing about Kaluza is navigation. ![]() This is a welcomed change of pace from FlowJo, which feels like an eternity when manipulating things like compensation on many large files at once. Moving around within the software is very snappy. They initially load about as fast as you’d expect, within a few seconds up to 30 seconds, but once they’re loaded, you can make adjustments, move gates around, recalculate stats very quickly. I’ve loaded small (10K cells, 2 or 3 colors) files as well as quite large (5M cells, 10 colors) files. You load FCS files, apply analysis plots/regions/stats and that’s it. Getting started with the software is easy enough. They successfully pulled off the minimalist/high-tech look and feel of the software. With that being said, here’s my first impressions on the windows-only (so sad), late beta version of Kaluza.įirst of all, it is aesthetically pleasing to look at and interact with. What this basically means is that I pretty much look at all analysis software through a “FlowJo-colored lens.” My impressions therefore, are fairly skewed towards that bias. We’ve looked into other packages in the past (namely FCS Express and VenturiOne) but none were as exhaustive in capabilities as FlowJo, so we felt we were getting the most bang for buck in that case. Nearly all of our users analyze with FlowJo (others use acquisition programs like CellQuest or FACSDiVa to do analysis). You’re probably well aware of the fact that we at the University of Chicago are a FlowJo shop. I’ve been playing around with Kaluza for about a month now and so I can share a few thoughts. Beckman Coulter ( ) has released it’s offline analysis tool, Kaluza, whose major feature seems to be speed. Seems like there’s quite a bit of news coming out of Miami these past few months, and that is a good thing.
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