Still Pond Cytomics offers its services to you via scientific collaboration. You have data – we get it. We specialize in the deep analysis of data just like that which you routinely generate.
We can work with you using flexible contractual mechanisms. We offer academic discounts where appropriate. If our services aren’t suited for your project, we’ll tell you, and we can help direct you to other computational resources that may be a better match. Please use the Contact link above to start the conversation!
By “deep analysis”, here’s what we DO mean:
- indexing your (10’s, 100’s, 1000’s, …) FCS files into a relational database,
- assigning metadata that you supply to us corresponding to the raw data,
- applying computationally derived pre-processing adaptive gates, designed to eliminate non-useful portions of the data in an unbiased fashion,
- creating models of baseline data. Models are representations of the multivariate probability distributions of the events in each FCS file. These are reduced to a (potentially) large collection of ‘cytomic features‘ (think functional phenotypes),
- using our deep mining algorithms, looking for any and all cytomic features in the data that correlate with the metadata,
- performing advanced statistical analyses, with P-values properly computed and corrected for multiple comparisons (-omics, right?),
- generating reports with customized graphics that you can use for your ground-breaking publication(s),
- providing NIH Biosketch forms for your grants, as appropriate.
… and here’s what we DON’T mean:
- Putting your data into a commercially available analysis package like FlowJo or FCSExpress,
- analyzing the data using traditional sequential gating methods.
… because you can do this yourself.