FlowUtils is a Python package containing various utility functions related to flow cytometry analysis, primarily focused on compensation, transformation, and gating tasks commonly used within the flow community.
FlowUtils is part of a suite of Python libraries for analyzing flow cytometry data. It was developed as an extension to the light-weight FlowIO library. FlowIO reads and writes Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) files, and has zero dependencies. For higher level interaction with flow cytometry data, including GatingML & FlowJo 10 support, see the related FlowKit project.
Note: FlowUtils uses C extensions for significant performance improvements. For the most common platforms and Python versions, pre-built binaries are available in PyPI (and installable via pip).
If a pre-built binary of FlowUtils is not available for your environment,
then the C extensions must be compiled using the source package. NumPy
must be installed prior to compiling FlowUtils. If compiling using gcc, version 5 or later is required.
Compiling FlowUtils from source can also result in NumPy C API incompatibilities. See the NumPy docs for more information.
pip install flowutils
pip install numpy>=1.20
git clone https://github.com/whitews/flowutils
cd flowutils
python setup.py install