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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

CAFE: an integrated web app for high-dimensional analysis and visualization in spectral flow cytometry.

Md Hasanul Banna Siam, Md Akkas Ali, Donald Vardaman, Satwik Acharyya, Mallikarjun Patil, Daniel J Tyrrell

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Md Hasanul Banna SiamDepartment of Pathology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, United States.
Md Akkas AliDepartment of Pathology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, United States.
Donald VardamanDepartment of Pathology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, United States.
Satwik AcharyyaDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, United States.
Mallikarjun PatilDepartment of Pathology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, United States.
Daniel J TyrrellDepartment of Pathology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0811-6724

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XRAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA013148 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Omer Jamy · 1985 to 2026
$165.9M
Cerebrovascular Mitochondrial Function in Aging and Ischemic InjuryR00AG068309 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI TYRRELL, DANIEL · 2022 to 2024
$744k
National Institutes of Health/National Institute on AgingNCI NIH HHS P30 CA013148NIA NIH HHS R00 AG068309
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Abstract

motivationSpectral flow cytometry provides greater insights into cellular heterogeneity by simultaneous measurement of up to 50 markers. However, analysing such high-dimensional (HD) data is complex through traditional manual gating strategy. To address this gap, we developed CAFEs (Cell Analyzer for Flow Experiments) as an open-source Python-based web application with a graphical user interface. Built with Streamlit, CAFE incorporates libraries such as Scanpy for single-cell analysis, Pandas and PyArrow for efficient data handling, and Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly for creating customizable figures. Its robust toolset includes density-based downsampling, dimensionality reduction, batch correction, Leiden-based clustering, cluster merging, and annotation.

resultsUsing CAFE, we demonstrated analysis of a human PBMC dataset of 350 000 cells identifying 16 distinct cell clusters. CAFE can generate publication-ready figures in real time via interactive slider controls and dropdown menus, eliminating the need for coding expertise and making HD data analysis accessible to all. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: CAFE is licensed under MIT and is freely available at https://github.com/mhbsiam/cafe.

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Flow CytometrySoftwareCluster AnalysisHumansInternetUser-Computer Interface

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