With your licensed copy of FCS Express (RUO), you can publish any layout. Once published, you can:

• Store published analysis on your own computer, website, or cloud.
• Distribute the link to your published analysis to colleagues, students, customers, or anyone in the world!

Standard publishing is absolutely free with FCS Express (RUO). There is no cost to you or your users when publishing or viewing a published layout. Once published, your layout can be viewed from anywhere at anytime with the FCS Express Reader. The FCS Express Reader is free to use and can be downloaded on our website. With the FCS Express Reader, your colleagues can:

Load any published layout Use the full analysis capabilities of FCS Express (modify gates, add plots, change compensation, etc.) Upgrade at any time to a licensed version

An advanced version of publishing is available as an add-on for FCS Express Clinical Edition that allows you to provide full, unlimited Virtual Flow for clients.

In order to publish a layout to the internet, simply select the File tab->Collaborate-> Publish.

An easy-to-use wizard will guide you through the process and in a few seconds you will have a URL that you can distribute to anyone in the world. Then they can use the free FCS Express reader to view and modify your analysis

Publishing options available to FCS Express customers are:

• Layouts may be published to your own computer, website, or cloud server.
• You can control what actions people are allowed to perform when looking at your published analysis.

• You can select whether to include Batch Processing Actions in the published layouts. This might be useful if you work in a clinical lab providing Virtual Flow, and there is proprietary information represented in the the Batch Processing Actions that you would rather not make available.
• You can select which keywords to make anonymous, to protect confidential patient information or other sensitive metadata.

Are you a teacher?

• Provide your students with ready-made analyses, and let them focus on just the specific things you want to teach.
• Because FCS Express is a full presentation software, you can embed instructions, lines, arrows and many other visual tools to allow students to understand your lesson.
• Let them save changes in the layouts, and then students can send the modified layouts to you for review.
• Provide the Reader for any number of students for free - you only need one license for publishing.

Do you work in a clinical lab?

• Provide full, unlimited Virtual Flow for your clients.

Are you a researcher?

• Give people access to your entire, live analysis, not just an image of it.
• Consult with colleagues around the world, on mailing lists or forums, and no one needs to purchase any new software to see or understand your questions.

Are you an author/publisher?

• Distribute layouts with a book, on a cd in the book or on your website, and the examples and tutorials will come alive.

Are you a vendor?

• You can publish examples of your reagents so that your customers can see what they really look like.
• Publishing allows your potential customers to interact with your data examples, move any gates, check for nonspecific binding, etc. without the need for product sampling.
• Customers with FCS Express can publish layouts for you to view to assist them with technical questions or troubleshooting.

After I publish, will my data be safe? Can other people see private information?

• When dealing with HIPAA or other requirements for anonymity, you have the need to protect patient information. FCS Express allows you to remove or change keywords in your data files, which is where the sensitive information is stored, before publishing.
• Also, after your layout is published, FCS Express will not let anyone export the raw data, unless you give explicit permission during the publishing process (using the advanced publisher).
• All information stored in an FCS Express layout is secure and encrypted, and cannot be extracted without using FCS Express.

When other people are looking at my published analysis, what can they do with it?

• With the Free Reader, when people look at your analysis, they will be able to use the vast majority of functionality of FCS Express. You will have the ability to let them perform either more actions or fewer actions - it's entirely up to you. These include moving gates, modifying existing and adding new plot,  printing to PDF, to Powerpoint, viewing statistics. We have hundreds of security permissions to give you fine grained control of what the user can, and cannot, do. You can even selectively remove sensitive .fcs file keywords using our new Keywords Anonymizer.
• The primary limitation is that they cannot change to another set of data aside from what was published in the layout. A full list of the allowed actions is available in the FCS Express Manual.