FCS Express supports seven types of 2D Plots:
- Dot or Color Dot Plots- Shows all the cells on your plot in any color you want.
- Density Plots - Shows all the cells where the different colors represent the density of the cells at a given position.
- Contour Plots - Same as density plots, except the density of the cells is displayed as contour lines.
- Surface Plots - Shows a 3 dimensional surface view of the cells.
- Scatter Plots - Shows custom data plotted on the X and Y axis.
- Picture Plots - Shows an image which can be gated and treated like any other plot.
Density |
Dot Plots |
Contour |
Picture |
Scatter |
Surface |
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The plots in FCS Express are completely customizable. You can change the background, fonts, titles, axis, legends etc. Nearly every single thing you see on the screen is customizable.

In addition, plots can be automatically displayed in grayscale or black and white for publication quality images.















