Instrument: Flow Cytometer

Dataset: 
Coral reef seawater microbial communities
Instrument: 
Flow Cytometer
Instrument Short Name: Flow Cytometer
Community Standard Description
(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:
Dataset-specific description

Used for measuring cell concentrations. Samples collected for flow cytometry were analyzed using colinear analysis (laser excitation wavelength of 488 nm, UV) on an Altra flow cytometer (Beckman Coulter, Pasadena, CA.).