Table 1.
Comparison of Quality Assurance Functions Available in FlowJo, flowQ, and QUAliFiER
| |
Software package |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | FlowJo1† | flowQ | QUAliFiER@ |
| QA Across Multiple Experiments |
|
|
✓@ |
| QA Ungated Data |
|
✓ |
✓@ |
| QA Gated Data |
|
|
✓@ |
| Interactive HTML QA Report |
|
✓ |
✓@ |
| Use Study Metadata as Grouping Variables for QA |
|
|
✓@ |
| Customizable QA tasks |
|
|
✓@ |
| Customizable outlier detection |
|
|
✓@ |
| Automated for pipelined analysis | ✓ | ✓@ | |
†Although FlowJo does not have internal QA tools, it can export arbitrary population statistics in csv format that may be analyzed in other software.