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  • The types of Dimensions in Cytobank correspond to common things measured in experiments (also known as "experiment variables").  These include:

     

    Timepoints are specified durations used in your experiment. Most commonly, these are times which a sample was allowed to signal before being fixed, but timepoints ...

    Individuals can be different patients or different reserach animals in a study. Usually individuals are similar in other regards (if not, use Sample Types).

    Conditions include stimuli and inhibitors applied to a sample.  Any perturbation can be considered a Condition. This is a fairly broad category that could also ...

    Populations of cells are defined by gating and can be used as a dimension within an illustration.

    Dosages    
    Dosage titrations are specified concentrations varied in the experiment. Typically doses are used in titrations of a Condition. Examples: 0.1 ng/mL, 10 ng/mL.

    All flow cytometry experiments have several measured parameters that are referred to as a Staining Panel. Each Staining Panel names what was measured as a ...

    Types of samples are the major classifications of individuals tested in your study. Examples: wild type and knock out, tumor and healthy.
    If you ran your samples on the flow cytometer in a plate, you may wish to use the Plate Row, Plate Column, and Plate Figure ...


    There is also a special dimension useful for making quick figure overviews:

    Filenames includes all your files and allows you to organize a list of your files as a dimension.  This dimension is most useful by itself ...