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CytoGenie specifications
Annual Subscription
ScienceXperts® (SXPI) currently provides CytoGenie on annual subscription. Lab licenses for CytoGenie permit up to three individual users, with keys for additional users available at any time for a yearly maintenance fee. CytoGenie facility licenses, which are free, enable core FACS facilities to maintain an inventory of all their instruments configurations and make it available to all their participating labs.
A key give users 24X7 access to a dedicated,
fully backed-up server, which contains their CytoGenie knowledge bases.
Users may access this server from any computer with Internet service
anywhere in the world.
Knowledge Bases
Using Stanford
University’s ontology-based Protège software engineering, CytoGenie provides four different knowledge bases, which users see as a
seamless whole:
The Universal Knowledge Base holds the latest commercially available data on flow instruments, biological reagents and stain sets, and other information needed to do flow experiments and clinical studies. Leading users of CytoGenie will continually contribute validated knowledge.
A Facility-wide Knowledge Base adds specific data on machines and reagents available in the user's flow facility. CytoGenie has automated entry forms for facility administrators to provide this information.
A Research Team Knowledge Base operates like the Facility Knowledge Base, but is limited in scope to the research team.
An Individual User's Knowledge Base provides the user with a private work area for writing, editing, storing and retrieving his or her own protocols.
Online and Off
The SXPI server
automatically downloads the ever-evolving application, knowledge bases
and all updates as part of the subscription service. At the end of
every online session, CytoGenie places the latest copy of itself and
the updated knowledge bases on the user’s computer. This allows the
user to work offline. When the user next logs onto the server, any new
work will upload to the user’s individual knowledge base and to any
other relevant knowledge bases to which he or she has writing
privileges.
Writing Authorization and Control
Only one person – the
individual user, team leader or facility administrator – receives
authorization to enter or modify information in the corresponding
knowledge bases. This protects the knowledge bases against accidental
overwriting and other errors. CytoGenie also tracks who makes every
entry into every knowledge base, and allows only one copy of each to be
open for writing at any given time. If a copy is currently open for
writing, CytoGenie will prevent anyone else, whether authorized or not,
from writing to the same knowledge base.
Privacy and security
CytoGenie maintains privacy and security by initially requiring users to log onto the SXPI website (www.ScienceXperts.com) to
request an access key, which we send to the user’s email address. The
user opens the email and clicks on a private link, which we
periodically renew. This gives users sole control over access to their
CytoGenie knowledge base and allows them the freedom to work with
CytoGenie from any computer on which they can access their email
servers.
Knowledge Sharing
Subscribers may override these protections and allow others to share writing privileges to a knowledge base.
System Requirements
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CytoGenie can run on any Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, MAC OS 10.4.5 or later.
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The program requires a minimum of 512 MB of random access memory and Java 1.5.
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Windows users will need to download a free, self-loading copy of Java
from Sun Microsystems. SXPI will provide subscribers with a link to the
Java download site.
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A monitor with a 1280x1024 or larger display works best, but is not required.
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The latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer provide the most
faithful display of the User Guide and other HTML documents.
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