November 13 - 16, Charleston, SC, USA, SERMACS 2002

Extracting Knowledge and Delivering Data: From the Analytical Laboratory to the Chemists Desktop Using Web-enabled Technologies

Antony Williams, Valery Tkachenko, Alexey Surnin, Alexey Pastutsan and Dmitry Mityushev

Abstract

Walk-up or open-access laboratories have dramatically impacted the ability for a small organization to support the analytical needs of its chemists. Commonly, skilled professionals assume the duty of laboratory manager as well as skilled technical consultant. As part of this responsibility one challenge is the distribution of data from the instruments to the chemist as well as providing enabling technologies to extract full-value from the data. Open-access laboratories are heterogeneous in nature requiring that data from a series of techniques can be distributed in a homogenizing fashion. The world-wide web has certainly assumed the primary mantle of electronic communication nowadays and would be assumed to be an ideal solution for analytical data dissemination as well as management and distribution of the extracted knowledge. This talk will detail technical approaches for the delivery of heterogeneous analytical data, including integrated chemical structures, to the enterprise.