What inspired this wish list request?
An inability to open .FCS file extensions natively in JMP and a recommendation to submit an idea.
What is the improvement you would like to see?
It would be great if .fcs files could be recognized and opened directly into JMP as JMP already has a ton of built in capability that makes processing data of this format very easy. It seems that files currently need to be converted into a .txt or .csv format first to be opened. Since .FCS files mainly contain scatterplot data I think there could be some easy translation of JMP functionality into processing these files.
Why is this idea important? Because of the demographic that typically uses software like JMP there are likely many other flow cytometer operators in my situation who don't want to use a completely different software to open and analyze these data. Would be awesome to use a data analysis platform we are already familiar with and have access to.