Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a collaboration with De Novo Software (Los Angeles, CA, USA) to provide users of the popular FCS Express software access to data generated by Thermo Scientific high-content platforms.

With the increasing adoption of high-content/image cytometry from basic cell biology through drug discovery, toxicology and systems biology users are generating massive amounts of data on cellular processes. In addition to images, a typical high-content experiment can produce millions of data points on individual cells, hidden in this data could be the next anti-cancer drug or environmental toxicant. Data analysis and data mining software, which can extract this kind of knowledge from “big data” is therefore key to the benefits of high-content.

All Thermo Scientific high-content platforms are seamlessly integrated with Thermo Scientific Cellomics Store which acts as a central hub of images and data for analysis, data mining and reporting from any desktop PC in the user’s global network. The collaboration with De Novo Software provides the FCS Express 4 Image Cytometry software with seamless access to the high-content data in Cellomics* Store and brings users the familiar analytical tools of flow cytometry to image cytometry (high-content). Connecting via the Cellomics Store open standard, web-services interface, FCS Express can quickly retrieve data and images from an experiment performed on any Thermo Scientific ArrayScan VTI HCS Reader or Thermo Scientific CellInsight Personal image Cytometer. Users may then interact with data at the single cell level in real-time, perform flow-style analyses, generate single-cell dose-response curves and access rich statistical and visual tools to maximize the knowledge from their high-content experiment.

A demonstration of the compatibility between FCS Express Software and the Thermo Scientific platforms will be held at booth #31 at the Cambridge Healthtech Institute High Content Analysis Meeting, Jan. 10-13, 2012, in San Francisco.

For more information on the entire Thermo Scientific range of products for high-content call 1-800-432-4091 or visit www.thermoscientific.com/hcs

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For more information, visit https://www.denovosoftware.com or https://www.thermofisher.com