Community Supported Analysis

It is harvest time in Oregon, and the tomatoes and peppers are like nothing you've ever tasted.

The most popular perquisite of working at Tree Star is the weekly delivery from Fry Family Farm, an organic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project in our neighboring town of Talent, OR.

Once a week, our reception desk becomes a farmer's market as staff barter over onions, eggplants, mustard greens and beets. Not only is the quality of the produce amazing, but we enjoy the benefits of putting the money directly back into the local economy, and supporting our neighbors.

Watch Group B divvy the haul on YouTube.

 
When is a software company like an organic farm?


CSA is precisely the model that has worked so well for FlowJo. We see our customers as investors in the flow community; that by supporting us, you promote alternative options for each other. Your license fees don't really pay for the disc you receive; they pay for the next and future releases. In buying direct, you are collectively working to counteract the inertia that big business imposes on science. Software products are too standardized, static and homogenized. As a small "local" provider, we can respond to customer requests with agility.

You may encounter a bug in one of our releases, just as Fry Farms delivers the occasional earwig in our lettuce, but the overall result is that our software tastes better and is better for you because it is always fresh and you are part of the process. Find the nearest CSA project and support your local farmer. Click here to send us their name and address, and we'll send a $100 donation to the first 50 CSAs.

Harvest Time

We have our own harvest coming up, as version 7.5 approaches release. We've been ploughing through this rewrite for over two years and it still has rough spots and blemishes, but it will soon bear fruit. Feast on our extended tables and layout features, append results directly to Excel and PowerPoint and enjoy a smoother interface. (More...) We're investigating a cross platform, network aware, open format version of FlowJo, OSX and Linux users - stay tuned. Open XML formats and client/server make this FlowJo scalable to the enterprise, and optimized for networked trials. See performance stats here.

Boosting the Yield

Although it is fresh from the ground up, FlowJo 7.5 is being released as a free upgrade. You have paid for it already with your loyal support. To grow the return on your investment, we are extending our discount program. Degree granting institutions in eligible countries will receive an additional 50% off Flowjo’s already discounted Academic price, as we try to boost the yield for the next wave of medical research.

On the subject of impact, we recently surveyed the journals rated with the highest impact factor for immunologists, and checked what software the publishing authors were using. The results were pretty impressive! Of papers that cited analysis software in their methods, FlowJo was used three times more than CellQuest or DiVa. This much is clear, the Community Supported Analysis model is working for FlowJo.

Say What?

Check out MyCyte's "Say What?" cartoon caption contests. The best caption for each cartoon wins a prize. Our latest winner, Ryan, won a MyCyte t-shirt for this caption:

"I don't know, Jane. Dr. Kevorkian told us not to give him anything after 10pm...."

Create a caption for the newest cartoon (below) and win a MyCyte.org T-shirt. View the current lot of  reader captions and add your own! Your tailor will thank you. See all previous winners here.


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