Instrument: Flow Cytometer

Instrument Short Name: Flow Cytometer
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB37/)
Instrument Description:

Flow cytometers (FC or FCM) are automated instruments that quantitate properties of single cells, one cell at a time. They can measure cell size, cell granularity, the amounts of cell components such as total DNA, newly synthesized DNA, gene expression as the amount messenger RNA for a particular gene, amounts of specific surface receptors, amounts of intracellular proteins, or transient signalling events in living cells.
(from: http://www.bio.umass.edu/micro/immunology/facs542/facswhat.htm)

PI supplied instrument name: BD FACScan(TM) System
Dataset-specific description

Host abundance in each flask was monitored by flow cytometry (FCM) on a BD FACScan(TM) System for a 106-day period.