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CytoGenie brings Computer Aided Design to biosciences

ImageEngineers and architects regularly rely on computers to design and build almost everything, and have done so for years.  Not so in the life sciences, where researchers still waste valuable time and money doing tedious jobs that computers could do much faster, much better and at far lower cost.

CytoGenie changes all this, giving flow cytometry the full power of Computer Aided Design, or CAD.  Developed in the Herzenberg Laboratory at Stanford, this cutting-edge software service helps plan, run, analyze, save and share basic and clinical flow cytometry experiments.

Visualize and manage the entire study.  Design top-quality protocols for 3 to 12+ color flow studies in minutes.  Construct customized subject and sample tables with your own keywords and descriptors.  Point and click to add subjects, samples, reagents, colors and stain sets.  Save time by re-using protocols, stain sets and other entries.  Share your work online with colleagues and export your tables and keywords to popular flow cytometry instruments, which send them to co-operating data analysis software packages.

With CytoGenie, you effortlessly pick the right antibodies and color conjugates, build effective single and multi-step stain sets, include the right controls, create and print detailed pipetting plans and manage reagent inventories.  You can even buy Invitrogen reagents online.

And, you can do all this the way you want.  Quickly shape the look and feel of almost every aspect of CytoGenie.  Start with whichever task works best and move back and forth with ease. The first of a new breed of digital genies from ScienceXperts, CytoGenie lets you design your own work-flow and helps you do the work quickly and well.

To view some of the new CAD tools in CytoGenie, click Manage how you see what you've got.  To get a quick feel for CytoGenie, watch our new Magic Minute Flashcards, CytoGenie: Why bother? and CytoGenie: What's in it for me?

 

Why buy ScienceDatastore?  Not everyone agrees

A long-term, tamper-proof storage system for large data files, ScienceDatastore is so versatile that people have very different reasons for wanting it.

If you are a researcher, you will likely see the obvious advantages, whether you use flow cytometers, confocal microscopes, micro arrays, or other data-intensive technologies:

One-click saving of your work (after export from DiVa, if that's the software you're using).

Instant access to your work from any computer with an Internet connection anywhere in the world, with whatever level of security you want

Immediate sharing of whatever parts of your work you want with whichever colleagues you choose, whether in their lab or across the globe

Long-term preservation of your work in a secure, tamper-free environment with ample backup  

If you are an information technologist, you will sleep better at night knowing three simple facts:

You can backup ScienceDatastore with whatever system you already use

You can trust ScienceDatastore, which has performed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for nearly 3 years at Stanford University's Shared Facs Facility

You will no longer have researchers pestering you to track down back work since ScienceDatastore makes it so easy for researchers to find their work for themselves

If you manage flow cytometry and other high-tech facilities, you will see two key benefits:

ScienceDatastore will spare you as well from having to hunt for researchers' work

ScienceDatastore's one-click archiving takes place in the background, freeing your costly instruments for other users

If you run pharmaceutical and other life science companies, universities, hospitals or blood banks, you will naturally go for the big-picture, bottom-line gains: 

ScienceDatastore cuts costs

ScienceDatastore saves everybody's time

ScienceDatastore ensures that the long-term, tamper-proof maintenance of research files complies with increasingly stringent legal, insurance, and other regulations and requirements

Different folks, different strokes.  But, whatever your stake, you will soon agree that ScienceDatastore does the job, whichever job it is.

For your convenience, ScienceDatastore comes with three licenses for CytoGenie Lab, our full-featured software to help select reagents and design protocols for flow cytometry.  This allows you to archive experiment data together with their protocols and automatically send labels and tables to cooperating analysis programs.