One of the many timesaving features that FCS Express offers is the ability for you to gate on a marker. This was a highly requested feature and is useful if you want to use your marker to set a negative (or positive) population and have your other plots only show cells in that population. To see how easy it do accomplish, watch our brief demo on Gates.

All you have to do is convert a marker to a gate with a click of a button, and then you can use that gate like you would in any gate formula. Converting a marker into a gate could not be any easier! One option for converting is to simply create a gate, in which case the gate will not move when the marker moves.

The other possibility is to link the gate to the quadrant - this means that whenever you move the marker, the gate will be automatically updated.

Quadrants can also be converted to gates and linked!