期刊
CYTOMETRY PART B-CLINICAL CYTOMETRY
卷 78B, 期 -, 页码 S69-S82出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.20554
关键词
flow cytometry; density-based analysis; data clustering; tetanus vaccination; B-lymphocyte subsets
资金
- U.S. National Institutes of Health [N01-AI40076, N01-AI50029]
- [U19-AI56390]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [U19AI056390, R37AI049660, K24AI079272, N01AI050029, R01AI084808] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Background: Advances in multiparameter flow cytometry (FCM) now allow for the independent detection of larger numbers of fluorochromes on individual cells, generating data with increasingly higher dimensionality. The increased complexity of these data has made it difficult to identify cell populations from high-dimensional FCM data using traditional manual gating strategies based on single-color or two-color displays. Methods: To address this challenge, we developed a novel program, FLOCK (FLOw Clustering without K), that uses a density-based clustering approach to algorithmically identify biologically relevant cell populations from multiple samples in an unbiased fashion, thereby eliminating operator-dependent variability. Results: FLOCK was used to objectively identify seventeen distinct B-cell subsets in a human peripheral blood sample and to identify and quantify novel plasmablast subsets responding transiently to tetanus and other vaccinations in peripheral blood. FLOCK has been implemented in the publically available Immunology Database and Analysis Portal-ImmPort (http://www.immport.org)-for open use by the immunology research community. Conclusions: FLOCK is able to identify cell subsets in experiments that use multiparameter FCM through an objective, automated computational approach. The use of algorithms like FLOCK for FCM data analysis obviates the need for subjective and labor-intensive manual gating to identify and quantify cell subsets. Novel populations identified by these computational approaches can serve as hypotheses for further experimental study. (C) 2010 International Clinical Cytometry Society
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