OMIQ for Academic Researchers and Students

OMIQ is cloud-based flow cytometry analysis software for academic researchers, students, and teaching labs. It combines traditional gating, autogating, high-dimensional analysis, visualization, statistics, and reproducible workflows in one software.

Why Academic Researchers Choose OMIQ

Make analysis transparent and reproducible

OMIQ brings a data science approach to flow cytometry software. Every transformation, gate, algorithm, and parameter in OMIQ is captured as an explicit step in a visual workflow. Analyses can be inspected, questioned, audited, and rerun, making methods easier to document, teach, and reproduce.

Standardize your lab's workflows

Capture established parameters and gating strategies in reusable workflows. Apply them to new datasets and share them across your team. This reduces software-setup drift and keeps a departing postdoc or PI from taking months of institutional knowledge with them. New team members can pick up established workflows and get productive faster.

Collaborate directly in your browser

Share datasets and workflows directly with PIs, colleagues, collaborators, and reviewers. Keep everyone working from the same analytical framework without passing gigabyte-scale FCS files back and forth or managing local desktop licenses. Review results, compare approaches, and collaborate across labs and institutions.

Scale analysis without hardware limits

Process high-parameter spectral panels and multi-sample cohorts in parallel in the cloud. Run computationally demanding analyses without relying on expensive, high-performance workstations or putting local machines under strain, even as sample counts and panel sizes increase. Use a standard computer without crashes or lagging.

Combine gating with data science

Apply methods like UMAP, t-SNE, FlowSOM, and PhenoGraph alongside conventional gating. Access advanced analysis without writing code or installing plugins, with every parameter and analytical step visible, from routine gating to complex, multi-method pipelines.

Go from raw data to publication

Move from FCS, CSV or LMD files to publication-ready results. Create figures, heatmaps, and statistical summaries, or export results directly to GraphPad Prism or other tools for further analysis. Keep figures and statistics connected to the underlying analysis, making it easier to prepare manuscripts and explain how results were generated.

Teach Flow Cytometry with OMIQ

OMIQ gives students a practical way to learn not just how to analyze flow cytometry data, but how to think about analysis. Reproducible workflows make decisions visible, while cloud access makes it easy to experiment, collaborate and learn from anywhere.

Understand the thinking behind the analysis

See how flow cytometry analysis is built, step by step. Each operation and parameter is visible, so you can explore different approaches, change parameters and compare results without losing your original analysis.

Work from anywhere, on any computer

OMIQ runs in the cloud, so your can access your analyses without installing specialist software or using high-powered computers. Work from the classroom, lab or home using the same software, datasets and workflows.

Share datasets and workflows

Share datasets and workflows with students, instructors, and supervisors so they can start from the same baseline. Instead of just explaining, you can share the analysis itself for more useful feedback.

OMIQ Pricing and Academic Licenses

Pricing and Plans

Explore Essentials, Professional and Enterprise plans including academic and student discounts

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Academic Site Licenses

Provide researchers across your institution access to OMIQ with an academic site license

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Free Course Licenses

Give students hands-on experience with OMIQ with free licenses for coursework and teaching

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is OMIQ?

OMIQ is cloud-based flow cytometry software for classical, spectral, mass and high-dimensional cytometry analysis. OMIQ combines conventional gating, autogating, advanced algorithms, visualization, statistics, collaboration, and reproducible workflows in one environment.

Is OMIQ suitable for academic research?

Yes. OMIQ is cloud-based flow cytometry software for academic research, teaching and student use. Researchers can use it for routine and high-dimensional cytometry analysis, while workflows provide a traceable record of analytical steps and parameters for reproducibility, collaboration, and review.

Is OMIQ suitable for publication and peer review?

Yes. OMIQ records gates, transformations, algorithms and parameters in workflows, providing a traceable record of how an analysis was performed. Researchers can rerun workflows, share them with collaborators and use them to document analysis methods for publications and peer review.

Can I use OMIQ in my course?

Yes. OMIQ offers free educational licenses for undergraduate courses at accredited universities and high schools for courses up to 6 months long. Licenses remain active for the duration of the course and expire once it ends. Please contact us for further information.

What does the free trial include?

The OMIQ 30-day trial includes full access to every feature, with no credit card or commitment required. Demo data and a guided tutorial are available for anyone starting without existing FCS files.

How much does OMIQ cost?

Full pricing and online purchasing are available on the pricing page, including discounts for academics and students.

Is OMIQ only useful for high-dimensional or large datasets?

OMIQ performs the full range of flow cytometry analysis, including compensation, gating, and report building, as well as high-dimensional methods. A small routine panel and a large spectral dataset both run in the same software.

Does OMIQ support traditional flow cytometry analysis?

Yes. OMIQ supports conventional flow cytometry workflows including compensation, gating, transformations, visualization, statistics and reporting, as well as spectral and high-dimensional analysis.

Can I see how OMIQ generated a clustering or gating result?

Yes. Every step is captured in a workflow, so the sequence of gates, transformations, and algorithm parameters behind a result is visible and reviewable at any time.

How is OMIQ different from FlowJo?

OMIQ captures analysis as a visual, re-runnable workflow rather than a desktop workspace file. This keeps every gate, parameter, and algorithm fully documented and easy to defend during peer review, simple to hand off to a new student or postdoc, and standardized across a lab without emailing gigabyte-scale FCS files.

Because OMIQ runs in the cloud, high-parameter panel processing isn't limited by your local computer's hardware or a per-seat desktop license. Advanced computational methods—including UMAP, FlowSOM, and PhenoGraph—are built in natively without installing extra plugins, and finished results export directly to GraphPad Prism for publication-ready figures. See full OMIQ vs FlowJo comparison.

Is OMIQ a good alternative to FlowJo for academic researchers?

Yes. OMIQ provides traditional gating and flow cytometry analysis alongside high-dimensional algorithms, cloud-based computing and collaborative workflows. Unlike a desktop-based workflow, OMIQ records analysis steps in a visual, reusable workflow and allows researchers to share datasets and analyses through the cloud. See full OMIQ vs FlowJo comparison.

Does OMIQ integrate with GraphPad Prism?

Yes. OMIQ integrates with GraphPad Prism, allowing researchers to export flow cytometry results for downstream statistical analysis, visualization, and publication. Export flow cytometry data directly from OMIQ to Prism, or automate your analysis using GraphPad Prism files as templates.

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