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Friedrich, V.D.* ; Mai, K.* ; Hofer, T.P. ; Nößner, E. ; Bonaguro, L.* ; Hartmann, C.* ; FROLOV, A.N.* ; Carraro, C.* ; Hamada, D.* ; Shakiba, M.H.* ; Theis, H.* ; Ribeiro, D.J.S.* ; Wachten, D.* ; Wunderlich, F.* ; Scholz, M.* ; Theis, F.J. ; Becker, M.* ; Beyer, M.* ; Schultze, J.L.* ; Büttner, M.

ConvexGating infers gating strategies from clusters in single cell cytometry data.

Nat. Commun. 17:9975 (2026)
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Manual expert gating remains common practice for defining specific cell populations in flow cytometry data, but increasing numbers of measured parameters and high inter-rater variability limit consistency across studies. Cluster-based approaches use the full marker space to define cell populations more consistently, but their outputs cannot be directly implemented on a cell sorter. Here we develop ConvexGating, an artificial intelligence tool to address this gap by automatically learning interpretable gating strategies for sorting in an unbiased, data-driven manner, generating low-contamination strategies for both known and previously unknown cell populations, including plasmacytoid dendritic cells identified solely as CD57-CD13-CD45RA+ CD123+ cells. We show that ConvexGating derives sorting strategies for CD8+ subtypes and adipose progenitor cell populations, which we validate experimentally by single-cell sequencing of sorted cells. We also demonstrate that the method transfers effectively to Cytometry by Time of Flight and Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes by Sequencing data and improves marker panel design for cell sorting.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Gating ; Sorting ; Flow Cytometry ; Cell Sorting ; Cytometry ; Mass Cytometry ; Limit (mathematics) ; Consistency (knowledge Bases)
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2041-1723
e-ISSN 2041-1723
Quellenangaben Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: , Article Number: 9975 Supplement: ,
Publisher Springer
Publishing Place London
Reviewing status Peer reviewed