ACD/Curve Manager

Software for analytical curve processing, modeling, databasing, and visualization.

ACD/Curve Manager is a generic analysis tool designed to process, analyze, and manage experimental and calculated data generated from diverse analytical techniques. It allows you to better organize and visualize any volume of data resulting from research efforts, or high-throughput analytical analyses. ACD/Curve Manager even handles data from hyphenated techniques such as TGA/FT-IR, kinetics followed by multi-channel detectors (i.e., DAD or FT-IR), and many other "dual" techniques.

Features

Manage a wide range of analytical data, including:
- EELS (Electron Energy Loss Spectra)
- Thermal analysis (DSC, DTA, TGA)
- DMA
- Calorimetry
- Titrimetric methods
- Voltametric methods
- X-ray methods (powder diffraction, fluorescence, and photoelectron)
- ESR spectroscopy
- Kinetics
Advanced data modeling capabilities, including regression and curve-fitting
Perform various X- and Y-axis conversions and data manipulation.
Automate routine tasks with advanced macro processing tools.
Create a fully searchable database of experimental data.

Benefits

Organize and secure valuable experimental data.
Avoid redundant work by searching the database for existing information.
Bring together data from many different techniques and data types.
Publish and present analysis and results quickly and easily.

Additional Resources

Full List of Processing Features

Read data from single-, dual-, or multi-column ASCII files with an ASCII import wizard.
Export your analytical curves in ASCII file format.
Expand the list of supported import/export formats with your own custom external converters (DOS executable (*.exe) or ACD/ChemBasic programs (*.bas)).
Review processing steps for your curve data with the History file (full audit trail).
Calculate onset, end point and mid point for TGA data.
Calculate heat of enthalpy for DSC data.
Attach chemical structures to your analytical curves in order to better identify and interpret them. Find data files through organic, polymeric, inorganic, organometallic, and generic Markush structure searches.
Organize and compare multiple spectra in Tile, Full, or Overlay (series) modes.
Customize curve colors, axis names, and directions.
Capture analytical curve interpretations from the analysts more fully through the use of multiple annotation layers.
Interactively zoom in on any part of the curve.
Create customized data entry dialog boxes with Data Forms Manager to facilitate data input.
Create professional high-quality reports in PDF and ACD/ChemSketch formats, and more.
Automate repetitious processing tasks with macro commands, which can be applied later to a series or single curve.
Perform various X- and Y-axis conversions through standard mathematical operations with the transform tool
Calculate derivatives from the 1st up to the 4th order derivative and overlay it above the curve for analysis, or permanently convert the curve to the given order.
Apply baseline correction to a curve or series of curves automatically.
Subtract a curve scaled by a given factor from another curve.
Interactively remove noise from the data with flexible FFT or Savitsky-Golay smoothing algorithms.
Standardize the apparent resolution of a curve to that of a lower or higher resolution instrument, or to produce uniformly-spaced data sets.
Model spectrum or spectrum-like curves with a sum of analytic peak functions (Gauss, Lorentz, Gauss+Lorentz mix, LogNormal, Pearson VII).
Pick the peaks and inflection points on the curve automatically or manually. These peak positions are automatically entered in a table of peaks.
Calculate peak areas and FWHH (full width at half-height).
Create straight lines overlaying experimental curves manually or building linear regression on the selected part of the curve. Move and rotate lines. Find intersections of a pair of lines and the middle point of a line segment between two other lines.
Annotate curve regions, peaks, or characteristic points.
Fit the data with a straight line or polynomial, making use of a powerful and interactive regression tool.
Link data from related techniques in a clear hierarchical system
Link live curve data to a single data point or peak within a chromatogram, spectrum, or another analytical curve.

Full List of Databasing Features

Store experimental curves and associated data in a fully searchable database
Search by parameter, chemical structure, structure similarity and substructure, peaks, formula, molecular weight, or user data.
Define up to 16,000 fully searchable user fields per curve record.
Data can be entered interactively, imported, or generated automatically by the software through a variety of ways.
Update the database of experimental curves with structures, tables of peaks, and any additional information required by the user.
Replace the user data field systematically across an entire database list.
Select database records interactively in Tile or Table view.
Store and display BMP, JPEG, GIF, and PNG image files with your analytical curve.
Standardize data input to your corporate databases by means of the Data Forms Manager.
Automate routine tasks with various pre-processing, macro automation, and well-plate navigation interfaces.

Supported File Formats

Vendor	Data Format	File Format	Comments
Agilent Technologies	HP 84552A	*.wav
Agilent Technologies	ChemStation †	*.uv
ASCII single, dual and multicolumn		.txt; .prn; .csv; .asc
Bruker	OPUS	.
DeltaNu		*.spc
Dionex	Chromeleon †		"Connect to" ability available
Foss NIRSystems		*.da
JASCO Corporation	J-700	*.jws
JCAMP, JCAMP multispectra		.dx; .jdx
LabControl		.uvd; .irs
MATLAB DSO †		*.mat †
Ocean Optics		.
PerkinElmer Instruments		*.sp
Shimadzu	IR	*.irs
Thermo Scientific	Galactic	*.spc
	Mattson	.
	Nicolet OMNIC	.spa; .spg
Varian	Cary UV	.b; .d
Waters Corporation †	Empower and Empower 2		"Connect to" ability available
	MassLynx	*.inf
	Millennium ³²		"Connect to" ability available

† Diode Array Detector (DAD) support for hyphenated data.