Ingesting, validating, long-term storage and access of Flow Cytometer data.

Abstract

This document highlight the way to integrate the flow cytometry datasets into a database that fits interoperability and meets SDC ingesting procedure in order to make the datasets available through international portals. The works presents the first steps of standardisation of vocabulary dedicated to flow cytometry variables (optical units, abundance) and resolved functional groups (phytoplankton and heterotrophic prokaryotes) thanks to a consortium of international experts. The database and workflow from the sample to the SDC portal, ODV and EMODNET are presented, as well as the first datasets available online. This document is a deliverable of the SeaDataCloud project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730960.