Intuitive, “six task” assay building environment. Annotate and analyze across an entire plate. Set up plate level analytics like IC/EC50 curves; standard curves are automatically generated.
ForeCyt Software – Interactive assay development, analysis, and multiparameter data visualization
Optimize, Analyze, Visualize, Realize…Faster!
The heart of the Intellicyt platform, ForeCyt® Software, is an interactive assay development, implementation, and analysis environment.
Designed from a screening perspective, ForeCyt Software provides plate level annotation, analytics, and results visualization tools not found in traditional flow-based analysis software packages. From linking well data together to combining multiple assay outcomes together to identify “hits”, the time saving features help you get data insights that drive discovery.
ForeCyt Software’s Panorama Algorithm -The ONLY way to analyze multiple plates across your experiment at a glance.
- Compare heat maps across multiple plates
- Identify wells of interest using multiple criteria
- Rank wells by any metric with line graphs
ForeCyt Standard Edition: “Instrument Control and Analysis”
Part of every instrument, ForeCyt software provides the flexibility to set up sample acquisition, probe rinsing, and sampler cleaning any way you want, plate after plate. Once your analysis is created and optimized, it can be turned into a template that can be applied to any number of plates, providing “on-the-fly” analysis and result generation as your plates are processed.
ForeCyt Offline Edition: “Analysis on the Run”
For when you need to analyze your data but are not connected to the instrument. Planes, trains, and automobiles are now just extensions of your office.
ForeCyt Enterprise Edition: “Multi-user Access and Data Sharing”
Designed to be secure and scalable, ForeCyt Enterprise software is a multi-user, multi-instrument data storage and management solution that gives distributed access to remote analysis capabilities using “clients” activated with floating licenses. Some of the advantages for your organization are:
- Security and reliability via centralized data storage, encrypted network communication, and team / user level permissions
- Collaboration via data sharing among multiple users
- Throughput enhancements by running experiments on multiple instruments
- Scalability through enterprise caliber software architecture
- Ease of deployment via simple installers and flexible physical IT layout
ForeCyt Software Features
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One Stop Workflow
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Interactive gating with real time results
Easy assay optimization by gating on entire plate of data at once. Moving gates changes resulting data in real time allowing you to see the effects immediately.
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Generate the data you need and share it
Create custom metrics derived from basic metric building blocks using a simple wizard. All metrics become available for additional analysis, visualization, and/or exporting. A report generation wizard makes it easy to document your work in electronic notebooks and share it across your organization.
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Data Visualizations linked by well
The unique "Well Scan" function links multiple visualizations so you can quickly see all graphics generated from each well.
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Make decisions easier with profile mapping
Making sense of high content data and finding the sample with the right activity fingerprint can take a lot of time. We provide a way to combine assay outcomes (profiles) with Boolean logic to help locate the wells that meet your multiplexed criteria.
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Create a plate level view of all well graphs
With a single mouse click you can make any plot or histogram into a “Plate View” of well data thumbnails to visually compare them.
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Analyze multiple plates across your experiment
Snapshot your entire experiment with ForeCyt Software’s Panorama. View all plate data together to compare heat maps, identify hits across profile maps, and rank wells by any metric with line graphs.
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Release Notes History for the ForeCyt Software
ForeCyt 6.2
R2 (May 2018)
1. QC Results Viewer improvements to history graph visualization
2. Derived Concentration Metrics workflow improvements
3. CSV Export options added to preferences to give customers more flexibility in how CSV files are generated
4. Well ID Improvements with new Adaptive Algorithm to better support cases where there is high carryover
5. Linear Range "out of range" indicators in the metrics tab for well metrics changed from red text to red triangles in upper left corner
6. Documentation updates for new and existing features
7. Bug fixed so new experiments default well ID algorithm now is adaptive instead of data
8. Additional bug fixes and usability improvements
R1 (Mar 2018)
1. Access ForeCyt Reference Manual from the Help menu
2. Automatic QC and QC Viewer for iQue PLUS
3. Well ID Improvements with new Adaptive Algorithm
4. Derived Concentration Metrics allow you to copy standard concentration metrics from one plate across your entire experiment
5. Panorama Line Graphs now include a Normalization scale setting
6. iQue PLUS VYB support for Markers protocol
7. Protocol optimization to prioritize mid-plate cleans before inter-well shaking
8. 21 CFR 11 Auditing improvements
9. Automation support for detector cleans, detector power cycling, and better device details
10. Bug fixed where Panorama data export was outputting wells in a format inconsistent from ForeCyt metrics (i.e. A1 instead of A01)
11. Bug fixes and additional usability improvements
ForeCyt 6.1
R1 (Sept 2017)
1. Customizable CSV metric export to better allow for import into other data analysis packages
2. Support for exporting well FCS data from a specified gate/population
3. General Panorama improvements including quick calculation creation, and copy-to-clipboard
4. Panorama Overview improvements for visualizing and creating well sets, and excluding wells
5. Panorama Line Graph features for linking points with a vertical line, data selection navigator, and better access to configuration options
6. Panorama Data Grid improvements for automatically adding new calculations to data grids, filtering multiple criteria per column, and reordering columns
7. Instrument interface improvements around logging, and fluidics maintenance wizard
8. Added Snooze feature for save reminders along with user preference to disable them if needed
9. Added support in Log2Console.exe for displaying client-time as the primary timestamp in DeviceLog.xml log files, followed by device time, for clarity.
10. Bug fixes and additional usability improvements
ForeCyt 6.0
R1 (May 2017)
1. Panorama feature allows simultaneous comparison of multiple plates from an experiment using heatmaps, profile maps, series graphs, and line graphs
2. Metric caching feature enables faster experiment load times
3. Visualize the linear range for standard curve graphs
4. Automation API command for exporting Well FCS files
5. Pre-Plate Shake Box in the sampling protocol is now checked by default
6. Manually adjust the Y axis scale of a Standard Curves graph
7. Renamed Parameters are included in exported FCS files
8. Bug fixes and usability improvements
R2 (June 2017)
1. Linear range visualization for standard curves now available for analysis prior to 6.0
2. Bug fixes for linear range visualization and standard curve fit results
3. Panorama bug fixes and usability improvements
R3 (July 2017)
1. Added iQue PLUS BR HD Support for 1536 well sampling
2. Panorama bug fixes and usability improvements
3. ForeCyt standard curve bug fixes
ForeCyt Specifications
| ForeCyt Standard Edition | ForeCyt Offline Edition | ForeCyt Enterprise Edition | |
| Number of Computers | one | one | many* |
| Number of Instruments | one | none | many* |
| Number of Users | single | single | multiple* |
| Distributed Client Access | no | no | yes |