For Professionals in Research
NOTE: This update does not impact the BD Accuri™ C6 Plus Personal Flow Cytometer
BD has discontinued selling the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer as of December 31, 2016. Service for BD Accuri™ C6 Systems and their related options will continue until December 31, 2021.
All current service contracts will be honored. Current extended warranties will not be affected and will be supported until they expire.
One-year and multi-year extended warranty renewals were offered until January 1, 2021, provided these contracts end on or before December 31, 2021.
After contracts terminate, BD will support the BD Accuri™ C6 System for as long as reasonably possible, for example, depending on parts availability.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please see the following Frequently Asked Questions or contact BD Service Contracts Administration at 1.877.232.8995, prompt 4.
For information and special offers on the new BD Accuri™ C6 Plus Personal Flow Cytometer, please visit our page.
Kits & Templates
Download the catalog of available kits and templates or select from the following table:
| Category | Product Information Sheet | Brand | Kit | Cat. No | C6 Plus Template |
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Cancer and Cell Biology | |||||
| BD Apoptosis Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Annexin V FITC Apoptosis Detection Kit II | 556570 |  Download | |
| BD Pharmingen™ | Annexin V PE Apoptosis Detection Kit I | 559763 | Download | ||
| BD® | MitoScreen (JC-1) Kit | 551302 | Download | ||
| BD Pharmingen™ | Caspase-3 PE Assay Kit | 550914 | Download | ||
| BD Pharmingen™ | Caspase-3 FITC Assay Kit | 550480 | Download | ||
| BD Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit and Template | BD Pharmingen™ | Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit | 562253 | Download | |
| BD Cell Cycle and DNA Kits and Templates | BD Cycletest™ Plus | DNA Reagent Kit | 340242 | Download | |
| BD Pharmingen™ | FITC BrdU Flow Kit | 559619 | Download | ||
| BD Pharmingen™ | APC BrdU Flow Kit | 552598 | Download | ||
Immunology | |||||
| BD Naïve/Memory T-Cell Kits and Templates | BD Multitest™ | CD45RA/CD45RO/CD3/CD4 | 340571 | Download | |
| BD Multitest™ | CD45RA/CD62L/CD3/CD4 | 340977 | Download | ||
| BD Pharmingen™ | Human Naïve/Memory T Cell Panel | 561438 | Download | ||
| BD Intracellular T-Cell Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Th1/Th2/Th17 Phenotyping Kit | 560751 | Download | |
| BD FastImmune™ | IFN-γ/CD69/CD8/CD3 Kit | 346048 | Download | ||
| BD FastImmune™ | IFN-γ/IL-4 Kit | 340456 | Download | ||
| BD Regulatory T-Cell Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Human Regulatory T Cell Cocktail | 560249 | Download | |
| BD Pharmingen™ | Human Th17/Treg Phenotyping Kit | 560762 | Download | ||
| BD Pharmingen™ | FoxP3 Staining Kit | 560132 | Download | ||
| BD Mouse B-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse B-Lymphocyte Subset Antibody Cocktail | 558332 | Download | |
| BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse B-Lymphocyte Activation Antibody Cocktail | 558063 | Download | ||
| BD Mouse T-Cell Cytokine and Treg Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse Th1/Th2/Th17 Phenotyping Kit | 560758 | Download | |
| BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse Th17/Treg Phenotyping Kit | 560767 | Download | ||
| BD Mouse T-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse T-Lymphocyte Subset Antibody Cocktail | 558431 | Download | |
| BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse T-Lymphocyte Activation Antibody Cocktail | 557908 | Download | ||
Stem Cells | |||||
| BD Pluripotent Stem Cell Kits and Templates | BD Stemflow™ | Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Sorting and Analysis Kit | 560461 | Download | |
| BD Stemflow™ | Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Transcription Factor Analysis Kit | 560589 | Download | ||
| BD Stemflow™ | Human and Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cell Analysis Kit | 560477 | Download | ||
| BD Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Kit and Template | BD Stemflow™ | Human iPSC Sorting and Analysis Kit | 562626 | Download | |
| BD Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Kit and Template | BD Stemflow™ | Human MSC Analysis Kit | 562245 | Download | |
Bead-Based Assays | |||||
| BD® Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Reagents | BD® | CBA Kits | CBA Kits | Download | |
| BD® | CBA Flex Sets | CBA Flex Sets | Download | ||
Microbiology | |||||
| BD Accuri™ C6 Eawag Water Quality Template | BD Accuri™ | Eawag Water Quality Template | - | Download | |
Instrument Setup | |||||
| BD Accuri™ C6 Software User Guide | BD Accuri™ | 8 and 6 Peak Bead Template | 653144 653145 653160 | Download | |
| BD Accuri™ | 8 and 6 Peak Bead Template 24-Tube Rack | 653144 653145 653160 | Download |
Once you have downloaded a template, select File > Open Workspace or Template and open it. Gate positions, zoom level, thresholds, compensation, run and fluidics settings are all fully adjustable and may require optimization for different sample types. Once the settings are optimized for your experiment, click Run to begin data acquisition.
Note: The linked templates on this page are provided for the convenience of our research customers. Although they have not been validated, they have been used by BD or our customers to generate the sample data in the product information sheets. The templates have been designed using the current BD Accuri™ C6 Software, version 264.21. They are not compatible with version 172.9, 227.4, or 202.8 software. Further optimization may be required before use, and it is the end user's responsibility to ensure that use of the template is appropriate to their research.
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Brochures
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Catalogs
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Experiment Sheets
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BD Accuri™ C6 and BD Pharmingen™ Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit
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BD Accuri™ C6 and BD Pharmingen™ Stem Cell Marker Antibodies
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BD Accuri™ C6 and BD Stemflow™ hMSC Analysis Kit
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BD Accuri™ C6 and BD Stemflow™ Human Definitive and Pancreatic Endoderm Analysis Kit
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BD Accuri™ C6 and BD Stemflow™ Pluripotent Stem Cell Kits
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Product Information Sheets
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Analysis of Cytokine Expression in Cancer Cell Lines Using Flow Cytometry
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BD Accuri Calcein AM Datasheet
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BD Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit and Template
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BD Apoptosis Kits and Templates
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BD Cell Cycle and DNA Kits and Templates
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BD™ Cell Viability Kit
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BD Cycletest™ Plus DNA Reagent Kit
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BD™ Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Reagents: A complete solution with the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer
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BD Horizon™ Fixable Viability Stain Reagents
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BD Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Kit and Template
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BD Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Kit and Template
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BD Intracellular T-Cell Kits and Templates
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BD Mouse B-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates
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BD Mouse T-Cell Cytokine and Treg Kits and Templates
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BD Mouse T-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates
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BD Naïve/Memory T- Cell Kits and Templates
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BD Pharmingen™ BrdU Flow Kits
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BD Pharmingen™ MitoStatus
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BD Pluripotent Stem Cell Kits and Templates
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BD Regulatory T-Cell Kits and Templates
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Combining Cell Migration and Immunophenotype Assessment Using Flow Cytometry
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Detecting Red Fluorescent Proteins on the BD Accuri™ C6
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Dose–Response Studies Using Flow Cytometry
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Immunophenotyping Cancer Cells Using Flow Cytometry
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Protein Phosphorylation Analysis Using Flow Cytometry
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Selectable Lasers Module for the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer
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Special Order BD Accuri™ C6 Research Systems
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SPHERO™ Rainbow Calibration Particles
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Product List
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Quick Start Guide
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Technical Documents
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Assessing Water Quality
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A Guide to Absolute Counting
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Analysis of 2102Ep Cells as a Pluripotent Stem Cell Reference Standard
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A Novel, Transportable Flow Cytometer Facilitates Algal Quantification in Cultures and Environmental Samples
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Automating the Personal Flow Cytometer
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Baculovirus Titration
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Bioprocess Monitoring
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Continuous Measurement of Intracellular Calcium
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Determining Cell Concentration by Direct Volume
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Identification of Human Peripheral Blood Cell Populations
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Guide for Using BD™ Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Kits
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Guide for Using BD™ Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Flex Sets
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Guidelines for Journal Authors Using the BD Accuri™ C6
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Making Flow Cytometry Personal
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Multiple Methods for Detecting Apoptosis
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Multiparametric Analysis of Aquatic Organisms Using Flow Cytometry
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Multiparametric Analysis of Microalgae for Biofuels Using Flow Cytometry
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Optical Filter Guidelines for Fluorescent Protein Analysis
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Platelet Counting with the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer
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Rapid and Accurate Analysis of the Nuclear DNA Contents of F
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Simplifying Complex Flow Cytometric Analyses
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Simultaneous Analysis of GFP-Transgene Expression and Plant Cell Ploidy
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Sowing the Seeds of Knowledge: The Integration of Practical Flow Cytometry into Undergraduate Education
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Studying Cell Signaling with the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer
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Taking Advantage of Fluorescence Spillover to Analyze More Markers on Fewer Detectors: Thinking Outside the Orthogonal Box
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The Essential Cell Analysis Tool
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The Personal Flow Cytometer in the Flow Cytometry Core Facility
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Threshold and Analysis of Small Particles
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Technical Specifications
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Tools
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User Guides and Manuals
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BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer Instruction Manual, serial number 2400 and higher
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BD Accuri™ C6 Software User Guide
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BD CSampler™ Accessory Installation Guide
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BD CSampler™ Software User Guide
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Display of BD Accuri™ C6 Software-Generated FCS 3.0 Files Using FlowJo™ Version 8.8.7 or 9.4.11 for the Mac®
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Guide to the FCS Express™ BD Accuri™ Software Importer
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Webinars
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Analyzing Data Collected on the BD Accuri™ C6 Using FlowJo™
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Cell and Platelet Counting Using the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer
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Cell Biology Applications of Real-Time Flow Cytometry
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Enabling a Deeper Understanding of What is on, in, and Made by the Cell
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Flow Cytometry Applications in Cell Biology and Cancer Research
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Flow Cytometry as a Tool for Microbial Analysis
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Integrating Flow Cytometry into Education
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
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Refer to manufacturer's instructions for use and related User Manuals and Technical Data Sheets before using this product as described.
Comparisons, where applicable, are made against older BD technology, manual methods or are general performance claims. Comparisons are not made against non-BD technologies, unless otherwise noted.
