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▄▄▀▀██▄▄ Use Acuity's Match Expression function to investigate ▄█▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ Like GenePix Pro, Acuity supports standard scripting █▓ █████▀
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▄██ ▀██ of principal components data (exportable as AVI █▓ █████▀
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▄██ ▀██ You always have access to your original raw data in █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ Acuity, including GenePix analysis images. View your █▓ █▀████▄
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▄▄▀▀██▄▄ With Acuity's web links functionality you are only ▄█▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ GenePix Pro to the Acuity database with the GenePix █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ Pro "Save To Acuity" command. At the enterprise level, █▓ █▀████▄
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▄██ ▀██ The Tree behaves like any other Windows tree. You can █▓ █████▀
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▄▄▀▀██▄▄ Construct datasets with fully general queries across ▄█▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ microarray data is made available in MAGE-ML format as █▓ █████▀
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▓██▄ ▄▀ As well as tools to manage users, groups and █▓ █▀████▄
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