BD FACS™ CAP (CAP = combinatorial antibody profile) is a screening tool for rapid characterization of human cell surface protein expression profiles using semi-automated high-throughput flow cytometry. The current configuration consists of 229 directly conjugated antibodies arrayed in a 96-well plate as three-color cocktails, which enables the characterization of each of the 229 individual surface markers. Each individual cell type of interest is analyzed on the 96-well screening plates and the data are acquired on a flow cytometer equipped with a high-throughput sampler. The expression level of each marker for each cell type is then calculated using semiautomated custom flow cytometry software. The process of characterizing these surface markers in a highly efficient manner using BD FACS™ CAP is enabled by automated liquid handling for staining, automated flow cytometry for data acquisition, and standardized algorithms for automated data analysis.
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Bruckner, S., Wang, L., Yuan, R., Haaland, P., & Gaur, A. (2011). Flow-Based Combinatorial Antibody Profiling: An Integrated Approach to Cell Characterization. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 699, pp. 97–118). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61737-950-5_6
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