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ACD/Curve Processor
Software for analytical curve processing, analysis, modeling, and visualization.
ACD/Curve Processor is a generic analysis tool designed to process and analyze experimental and calculated data generated from diverse analytical techniques. ACD/Curve Processor 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.
Benefits
- Work with data from many different techniques and data types.
- Publish and present analysis and results quickly and easily.
Additional Resources
- 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.
| Vendor | Data Format | File Format | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agilent Technologies | HP 84552A | *.wav | |
| 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.
