Easy to Use Interface

The VenturiOne® user interface is designed for ease of use; actions are grouped by function and options are more discoverable. The VenturiOne® user interface employs the latest Office 2007 look and feel. Microsoft has designed this new user interface to make things easy to find.

The Ribbon is the area at the top of the VenturiOne Application Window that presents an easy-to-browse main set of commands for the VenturiOne software. Commands are organized in logical groups that are collected together under tabs. To reduce clutter, some tabs are shown only when needed.

VenturiOne® Menu

At the top left corner of the application is the VenturiOne button, which displays the VenturiOne Menu:

The VenturiOne Menu provides you with options to:

Open a saved workspace file
Open a new or saved playlist file
Open an LMD or compensation file
Save a playlist, workspace or compensation file
Print
View the Print Preview and Print Setup
Import experiements from other flow cytometer software
Export VenturiOne playlists
View and/or open Recent Documents
View listmode file keywords
Access the VenturiOne Options dialog to set system default options.

VenturiOne® Application Window

The VenturiOne® workspace is split into three areas; a previews area, a playlist panel and a plots area.

The screen shot above shows the VenturiOne® application window in gallery view.

1. Playlist Panel

The Playlist Panel allows you to select multiple files for simultaneous analysis; files can be re-ordered and workspace and compensation files applied to each file as desired.

Key features include;

Add up to 400 LMD files for analysis
Re-order LMD files as required
Associate each LMD fiole with Workspace and Compensation files
Group files together for easy reporting

2. Previews Area

On opening an LMD file, VenturiOne® automatically lays out preview plots of all the parameters. This provides a fast and easy approach to the creation of plots for analysis. VenturiOne® allows users to create plots by looking at the data, rather than having to create the plot then look at the data. It is the speed of VenturiOne® that permits visualisation of all the parameters against each other. Manual compensation can be performed in the previews, just drag a population to adjust its compensation and it updates in real time!

The gating of the Preview automatically updates depending on plot or region selection.

Key features include:

Preview of all parameters against each other
Can be gated
Display as density, colour precedence or precedence density plots
Automatically calculate or manually adjust compensation

3. Plots Area

The Plots area displays selected plots and allows you to draw regions create gating and calculate results.

Key features include:

Display of selected plots of interest in either gallery of hierarchy view
DNA cell cycle analysis
Snapshot overlays for comparative analysis between files
Plots are colour coded to indicate gating
Tracking feature to link regions on other plots that display the same parameter
Y-Axis scaling of histograms for optimal plot viewing
Format plots to copy and paste into other application
All plot selections, regions and gates can be saved within a workspace allowing easy reuse of all settings.

Links:

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