NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – FlowJo and Becton Dickinson said today that they have established a strategic relationship in the area of single-cell analysis.
Under the agreement, the companies will market FlowJo Envoy, cloud-based data-analysis software, with BD's FACSymphony, a cell analyzer enabling the simultaneous measurement of up to 50 characteristics of a single cell.
The combination is expected to enable researchers to improve workflows and collaborations, share their data in the cloud, and share single-cell analysis data in real time, the companies said.
Separately yesterday, Ashland, Oregon-based FlowJo and Canadian firm Cytapex Bioinformatics said that they are partnering to provide bioinformatics consulting and services in flow cytometry data analysis using the FlowJo application. The services complement researchers' work in flow cytometry and allows for custom pipeline development, including plugin "app" development for the FlowJo application, the companies said.