• Coulter: EPICS 5, Profile or Elite
• Becton Dickinson: FACScan, FACSort, FACSAria
• Cytomation CICERO.

It can also analyse other distributions stored as ASCII files such as Coulter Counter volume distributions. Its main advantages are the speed of processing and the possibility to directly recover statistics in worksheet format.

CYTOWIN has been written by D. Vaulot from CNRS, Station Biologique, BP 74 29682 Roscoff Cx FRANCE, with help from Jeff Dusenberry (MIT). It is free of charge provided it is used for scientific purposes and provided the following citation is used in scientific papers:

• Vaulot, D. 1989. CYTOPC: Processing software for flow cytometric data. Signal and Noise 2:8

You can also obtain information on analysis protocols in the following chapter:

• Marie D., Brussaard C., Partensky F. and Vaulot D. Flow cytometric analysis of phytoplankton, bacteria and viruses. 1999. In: Current Protocols in Cytometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 11.11.1-11.11.15.

Latest versions (available in the download section )

• Cytowin 4.31 - Compiled November 2004
  • CytoWin can read FACSAria files saved as FCS2.0 in 1024 channels (cannot read native FACSAria files or FCS 3.0). [Note if you have Version 4.2 please upgrade to 4.31 since BD Aria software has changed the way files are exported to FCS format)
  • Maximum number of parameters extended to 12 including Time.
  • Configuration file format has changed since the previous version (4.1). Therefore they cannot be directly read. Instead use the Menu Item “Import Configuration File 4.1 or older”.
    

• CytoWin 4.1 - Compiled 15 June 2000

Support 

• Plase address all queries concerning CYTOWIN thru the Marine Microbes Forum