What’s New for HyperCyt V3.4 Software?
Author: Aaron Kennington; Published: Dec 14, 2010; Category: Flow Cytometry, HyperCyt User Support; Tags: HyperView, New Software Release; No Comments
With each new HyperCyt software release, you can expect to see bug fixes and new features both large and small. With the HyperCyt V3.4 software release, one of the main goals was to significantly improve performance. We have done so in several ways.
First off, with this release we now officially support Windows 7 for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Specifically, with Windows 7 64-bit, our software can now use as much memory as you have installed in your computer for data analysis, whereas previously on Windows XP 32-bit, our software was generally limited to 2GB of memory. So, if your HyperView Analysis computer has 4GB+ or more of memory, and you have been working with large FCS data files and more complex data analysis (i.e. more histograms, populations, statistics, and heat maps), you will see a large speed up in performance in HyperView Data Analysis.
Secondly, we have also re-worked our code to improve our memory usage on all Windows operating systems and we have speeded up our histogram display code. For users requiring FCS file stitching, you will now find that this process is now two to six times faster than the previous release.
A feature that was requested by IntelliCyt scientists is the Create Logical Wells Population. It is now faster and easier to create well logical populations by simply highlighting the wells of interest using a multi-selection plate control.
Create Logical Wells Population
Other useful new features include:
- Gating on any logical population. Another request from our internal researchers that they find very useful in assay development.
- Higher resolution for 2D histograms displaying the time channel. This is a great troubleshooting tool, for when you want to zoom into a particular area of the histogram.
- Setting compensation is now much easier to use. Using a floating compensation dialog box, that can be brought up from either Populations or Well Identification mode, any compensation changes can be previewed for all the histograms before being committed.
- Plate layout format for exported statistics from stats or heat maps. When you export statistics with the Excel Export button, you have the choice to select a grid format, which is an well ordered list, or plate format.
There are many more features that have been included in this release. If you have not already done so, I would encourage you to upgrade to take advantage of the performance enhancements and great new features in HyperCyt V3.4. Contact us to get the FTP download information.
