FCS Express has many gating features to make it easier and more efficient to analyze your data sets.

• Web Page - Gates
• Creating and Using Gates Quick Video
• User Manual - Gates
• Gating in FCS Express Webinar
• Gating Tutorial
• User Manual - Linking Gates Together

Data Specific Gates allow gates to be assigned to specific data files loaded in the data list. For a given data file, gating position and shape may be modified independently without changing the original Master gate applied to other data files.

• Web Page - Data Specific Gates
• Data Specific Gates Quick Video
• User Manual - Data Specific Gates

The Gate View and the Gate Navigator allows you to keep an eye on your gating hierarchy, as well as change gate properties and the gate hierarchy as well. Finally, the Gate Navigator allso allows you to keep track of your Data Specific Gates.

• User Manual - Gate View
• User Manual - Gate Navigator
• Gate Navigator Tutorial

FCS Express supports customization of quadrants, like setting them as Floating or Percentile. The four quadrants are defined as follows: Upper Left (UL), Upper Right (UR), Lower Left (LL), and Lower Right (LR).

• Web Page - Advanced Quadrants FCS Express Version 7.18 and Earlier
• Web Page - Quadrants FCS Express Version 7.20/7.24 and Later
• Web Page - Quadrants When Moving Previous Versioned Layout to 7.20 and Later
• New Quadrant Gate Feature in FCS Express
• Creating Quadrant Gates Quick Video
• User Manual - Quadrants

Markers are tools that are used to analyze data in either a 1D histogram or a 2D plot (they are also called 1D Gates in the latter case). Markers capture the data that falls between the low bound and the high bound.

• User Manual - Markers
• Linking Markers Together Quick Video
• Web Page - Linking Markers