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A practitioner’s view of spectral flow cytometry

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Spectral flow cytometry enables the simultaneous analysis of a large number of cell surface markers at the single-cell level

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Fig. 1: Theoretical distribution of spectra for 21 fluorophores used in a human CD4 T cell profiling experiment on a five-laser SF analyzer.
Fig. 2: Gating and unmixing are linked steps of SF data analysis.

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We thank the entire staff of the Scripps Research flow cytometry facility. This work was supported by grant NIDDK 1R01DK117138 to L.T. and a Clinical and Translational Science Award issued to the Scripps Translational Science Institute TL1TR002551 to S.S.

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