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Name	Flow Cytometry Standard File
Version	1.0-3.1
Other names
Identifiers	MIME: application/vnd.isac.fcs PUID: fmt/1737
Family
Classification	Dataset
Disclosure
Description	Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) is a format originating from data file standard for reading and writing of data from flow cytometry experiments written by International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). FCS format describes a file that is a combination of textual data followed by binary data. The first version of the format was adopted as FCS 1.0 in 1984, and then was modified in 1990 as FCS 2.0 and again in 1997 as FCS 3.0, with the latest version of the standard introduced in 2010 as version 3.1. Please see the links attached with this entry to find file specification.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	ISAC / International Society for Advancement of Cytometry
Supported by	ISAC / International Society for Advancement of Cytometry
Source	UMC Utrecht / University Medical Center Utrecht
Source date	15 Aug 2022
Source description
Last updated	15 Aug 2022
Note	https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:6a9bb787-839c-3d29-9800-4191c3209260#pageNum=1 https://isac-net.org/page/Data-Standards https://web.archive.org/web/20220128002659/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Cytometry_Standard