FlowJo organizes all of your analyses into a "workspace".
The workspace contains the following information:
- A list of all the samples that you have put into the workspace
- A list of all the groups that you have created
- All of the analyses (and results of calculations)
- All compensation matrices that you have created or loaded
- All table definitions that you created
- All layout definitions that you created
This information is at your fingertips through the workspace window.
Your workspace is like your laboratory notebook. You can save it,
and then re-open it in the future and continue your analyses from
where you left off. It will remember everything that you do (although
you can choose to delete analyses or samples and they will be forgotten).
Workspaces can become templates for batch analyses of many experiments--you
can load as many samples as you wish into a single workspace.
How you organize your workspaces is up to you. We recommend that
you assign each experiment a workspace and limit a workspace to
several dozen samples. Remember that you can copy analyses between
workspaces; there is no inherent limitation imposed by maintaining
multiple workspaces. Of course, all batch analyses are limited to
samples within a single workspace, so you will want to keep all
similarly-analyzed samples (even from different experiments) in
the same workspace. You may have as many workspaces open at the
same time as you wish.
