Analytical Laboratory

Have you ever spent hours creating spectra or figures for presentations or journal submissions? Does your lab have a collection of instruments from different manufacturers, each with different output formats? Has your research ever been scooped by a competing group because your results took too long to process and report? Are you becoming overwhelmed with paper spectra or chromatograms?

ACD/Labs' software can assist you with data processing, interpretation, storage, and reporting of results in the following ways:

Flexible Reporting of Chemical Data

Formatting spectra, chromatograms, and chemical structures for conference presentations, journal submissions, or internal reports can become tedious and frustrating. The level of cooperation between instrument output files and Microsoft® applications is not always optimal. Microsoft Excel and other graphing packages do not offer convenient features to handle spectra, chromatograms, and chemical structures. Furthermore, reporting features on instrument control software is often limited. Our software offers many flexible reporting options, with convenient reformatting of size, color, fonts, and labels. Additionally, this software works seamlessly with Microsoft Office. To learn more about easy reporting, click here.

Accelerate Data Processing

Many research laboratories carry instruments from different vendors, leading to problems with processing and reporting of data in a uniform way. Our software supports the predominant analytical techniques and data formats in a single platform for all major instruments and techniques. A single, vendor-neutral software package on a desktop computer allows scientists to process data in a consistent manner, no matter which instrument model the data was collected on. Advanced chemometric algorithms help users extract signals from noise, resolve mixture components, deconvolute peaks, and correct baselines. To read more information on how software can help simplify and accelerate spectral data processing, click here.

Conveniently Access Data, Previous Methods, and Results

It is not always easy to access data, since it may be stored on a remote instrument computer or on paper, locked away in a filing cabinet. An electronic database can help you find your data quickly by allowing several ways to search for the data, such as by chemical structure, date, user name, sample name, or other parameters, rather than a cryptic table of contents. An electronic database creates a central data repository away from the instrument interface(s), and is accessible from the researcher's desktop computer, allowing users to find previous results quickly. Learn more about Analytical Data and Sample Management.