Fedorec, AJH;
Robinson, CM;
Wen, KY;
Barnes, CP;
(2020)
FlopR: An Open Source Software Package for Calibration and Normalization of Plate Reader and Flow Cytometry Data.
ACS Synthetic Biology
10.1021/acssynbio.0c00296.
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Abstract
The measurement of gene expression using fluorescence markers has been a cornerstone of synthetic biology for the past two decades. However, the use of arbitrary units has limited the usefulness of these data for many quantitative purposes. Calibration of fluorescence measurements from flow cytometry and plate reader spectrophotometry has been implemented previously, but the tools are disjointed. Here we pull together, and in some cases improve, extant methods into a single software tool, written as a package in the R statistical framework. The workflow is validated using Escherichia coli engineered to express green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a set of commonly used constitutive promoters. We then demonstrate the package’s power by identifying the time evolution of distinct subpopulations of bacteria from bulk plate reader data, a task previously reliant on laborious flow cytometry or colony counting experiments. Along with standardized parts and experimental methods, the development and dissemination of usable tools for quantitative measurement and data analysis will benefit the synthetic biology community by improving interoperability.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | FlopR: An Open Source Software Package for Calibration and Normalization of Plate Reader and Flow Cytometry Data |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00296 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.0c00296 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/authorchoice_ccby_termsofuse.html), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited. |
| Keywords: | flow cytometry, molecules of equivalent fluorophore, software tools, unit calibration |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Cell and Developmental Biology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109549 |
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