has specified data input has specified data output has format specification is published by is executed in XML flowFlowJo Nandini Badarinarayan http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/html/flowFlowJo.html FlowJo is a commercial GUI based software package from TreeStar Inc. for the visualization and analysis of flow cytometry data. One of the FlowJo standard export file types is the "FlowJo Workspace". This is an XML document that describes files and manipulations that have been performed in the FlowJo GUI environment. This package can take apart the FlowJo workspace and deliver the data into R in the flowCore paradigm. parse BioConductor Software R software Data File Standard for Flow Cytometry descriptive statistical calculation Bioconductor