SFA - Life Sciences Cloud Platform

The SFA¹⁾(Spectral Flow Analysis) - Life Sciences Cloud Platform is a cloud-based solution that can efficiently perform a wide array of analysis protocols, ranging from conventional analysis including gating, in which only specific cell populations are selected for analysis and quantification based on differences in scattered light and fluorescence signal intensity, to advanced analysis such as dimensionality reduction, which enables a two-dimensional view of multi-dimensional information, and clustering, which automatically classifies cell populations.

The solution is compatible with Sony’s flagship ID7000™ Spectral Cell Analyzer. The raw data output and analysis results from the ID7000 software can be directly imported and analyzed without any conversion. In addition, this solution features BL-FlowSOM²⁾, a newly developed algorithm that speeds up FlowSOM, one of the clustering methods. Furthermore, because each algorithm is pre-installed in the cloud environment, immediate analysis is possible, and results from the data analysis can be managed and shared among users.

A special license needs to be purchased to use Spectral Flow Analysis.

¹⁾SFA is a software name and an abbreviation of Spectral Flow Analysis.

²⁾BL stands for Batch Learning, a method of batch processing all the data to be trained. FlowSOM is a state-of-the-art clustering and visualization method that uses Self-organizing Maps (SOM) to analyze flow cytometry data.

• SFA - Life Sciences Cloud Platform is for non-clinical research use only. Not for use in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, or for any other clinical purpose.
• The user of Spectral Flow Analysis shall not analyze, manage or store any sample data on this product that is, or is linked with, any personal information of the human sampled, as defined under applicable law.