FCS Extract

The FCSExtract application was developed to be a small utility that will allow you to Extract Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) data from a binary FCS file and convert it to an ASCII text format, which can be read by a variety of software Analysis packages. An example of working with this data in R is provided.

You may be frustrated if you Attempt to analyze your flow cytometery data in a FCS file using any third-party software analysis tool. The FCS file is a binary file, and contains a number of non-ASCII text characters, which are unprintable, and unreadable by many programs. You cannot just load a FCS file into Excel or other analysis tool easily.