Opens two or more FCS files and creates new files that contain only the Channels common to all.
During my work with flow & mass cytometry files (FCS), I've found that sometimes you have captured an experiment using different Channels / Parameters (usually, these are extra / unnecessary).
When trying to work with this in many software packages, including flowCore, this causes problems due to the different number of Channels in each file. Therefore, I implemented a simple script that will load at least two files, compare them and create new files (with the name "crop" added). These files can then be loaded into whatever package you wish.
Simply copy/paste the script and run it in R. My preference is an IDE such as R-Studio.
If the user-defined parameter names are different between files, this script won't be affected, but the output files will still have differently named channels / parameters. This may or may not be a problem downstream.
For a much more powerful (interative) method to compare and change Channel (Parameter) names etc. check out the Premessa package.