FlowCytoMonitoR: An R-Shiny Program for Advanced Monitoring Flow Cytometer Performance.

FlowCytoMonitoR enables comprehensive, multi-instrument monitoring of flow cytometer performance, visualizing all QC metrics across three major vendors.

• Why it matters: Reliable flow cytometry data depends on optimal instrument performance, but existing software tools are limited in usability and data visualization, hindering early problem detection.
• What they did: The authors developed FlowCytoMonitoR, an interactive R-shiny program that requires no coding, allowing users to analyze QC data from multiple instruments and visualize all metrics over time.
• The result: FlowCytoMonitoR has improved instrument performance monitoring in a shared resource laboratory, helping identify and predict issues, thus increasing cytometer uptime and service quality.