1. Adam Treister President, Tree Star, Inc. What am I doing at a Bioinformatics Jamboree? It’s a direct flight from Medford. R is the back door to penultimate feature creep. Drawing 2D gates doesn’t scale. High dimension data classification is best done by machine

2. Piping between FlowJo & R works (for us) TODAY! FCS files from cytometer are read/gated by one tool, written to an intermediate file, and opened by the next tool

3. Proposed: Cytometric Random Access Protocol In a modern client/server implementation, FCS files from cytometers are stored in a database on a central server, and tools read & write from the data store.