Analysis of data takes place in four steps: A major difference between Cytobank and other analysis programs is that you build a layout using the details of the experiment that you define one time. Instead of dragging and dropping individual files, you describe your experiment setup and Cytobank allows you to arrange and re-arrange the figure. Once you have "annotated" your files (i.e., told Cytobank what their labels are), you can change between display types (histograms, heatmaps, dot plots) with a single mouse click.
For example, if your experiment was a titration of an inhibitor in two different patient samples, you could ask Cytobank to create a figure showing contour plots of patients in rows and inhibitor doses in columns. If you wanted to flip the axes and make a tall skinny figure showing patients in columns and inhibitor doses in rows, you can just swap those two 'dimensions' of the figure, and the layout will be automatically updated.
There are also some preset figure templates that you can load, such as histogram overlays, heatmaps, and contour plots. With templates, a figure can be made in one step.
In addition to the figure creation tools, Cytobank is designed to make it easy to store, organize, and share datasets and analysis files. Some people just use Cytobank for data storage and analyze their data in other programs.
