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ArticleNature communications2021

AutoSpill is a principled framework that simplifies the analysis of multichromatic flow cytometry data.

Carlos P Roca, Oliver T Burton, Václav Gergelits, Teresa Prezzemolo, Carly E Whyte, Richard Halpert, Łukasz Kreft, James Collier, Alexander Botzki, Josef Spidlen and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Carlos P RocaVIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium. carlosproca@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0230-1926
Oliver T BurtonLaboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3884-7373
Václav GergelitsLaboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5178-8833
Teresa PrezzemoloVIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium.
Carly E WhyteLaboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6556-6855
Richard HalpertBD Life Sciences-FlowJo, Ashland, OR, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2457-9507
Łukasz KreftVIB Bioinformatics Core, Ghent, Belgium.
James CollierVIB Bioinformatics Core, Ghent, Belgium.
Alexander BotzkiVIB Bioinformatics Core, Ghent, Belgium.
Josef SpidlenBD Life Sciences-FlowJo, Ashland, OR, USA.
Stéphanie Humblet-BaronVIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium.
Adrian ListonVIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium. adrian.liston@babraham.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6272-4085

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S019189/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/B/000C0427Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/B/000C0428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Compensating in flow cytometry is an unavoidable challenge in the data analysis of fluorescence-based flow cytometry. Even the advent of spectral cytometry cannot circumvent the spillover problem, with spectral unmixing an intrinsic part of such systems. The calculation of spillover coefficients from single-color controls has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, and is increasingly limited in its ability to deal with high-parameter flow cytometry. Here, we present AutoSpill, an alternative method for calculating spillover coefficients. The approach combines automated gating of cells, calculation of an initial spillover matrix based on robust linear regression, and iterative refinement to reduce error. Moreover, autofluorescence can be compensated out, by processing it as an endogenous dye in an unstained control. AutoSpill uses single-color controls and is compatible with common flow cytometry software. AutoSpill allows simpler and more robust workflows, while reducing the magnitude of compensation errors in high-parameter flow cytometry.

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PMID34001872
PMCPMC8129071

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