ACD/Chrom Workbook
Advanced software for processing, analysis, and management of chromatographic separations.
ACD/Chrom Workbook is an advanced software tool for processing, analysis, and management of separations data such as high
performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC); liquid chromatography (LC) (with UV, DAD, or PDA detectors); gas chromatography (GC), capillary electrophoresis (CE).
- Import and process LC, GC, and hyphenated data such as LC/UV, LC/MS, GC/MS or LC/IR from a variety of instrument vendors, at
your desktop.
- Assign chemical structures to peaks on chromatograms
- Create chromatographic applications databases searchable by structure, method parameters, and other chromatographic
elements (e.g. peak area, name, height, amount)
- Automatically apply multiple processing steps to batches of samples (base-line correction, integration etc.)
- Work with series of chromatograms with automatic peak tracking
- Create customized data forms and reports
ACD/Chromatography Applications Database
The fully searchable ACD/Chromatography Applications Database
included with Chrom Workbook contains experimental data for over 8100 real-life applications covering HPLC,
GC, and CE methods. Each application is provided with instrument and column parameters, solvent and buffer information, chemical structure assignments, and
reference sources.
Chemical Context
Whether working on a group project or an isolated problem, Chrom Workbook gives you the ability to annotate your data, draw or import
structures, and attach those structures to chromatograms. ACD/Labs' unique ability to assign structures to chromatograms enables separations scientists to
create applications databases that preserve expert knowledge.
Data from multiple experiments of the same or various types can be stored together allowing you to retain and reuse the knowledge you
acquire through each step of the process.
Knowledge Management
Capturing and sharing chromatographic knowledge is a serious challenge in most laboratories. Create databases of live chromatograms to aid future research.
ACD/Labs' unique chemical and analytical knowledge management solutions allow you to capture the relationship between structure and spectra, and save the
human interpretation of data, providing tools that allow you to store and share knowledge with your colleagues.
- Store and share searchable chromatographic knowledge to enable faster method development and optimization
- Avoid duplication of effort
- Provide a collaborative platform for scientific research and development
Database records can include multiple chromatograms, structures, text data, pictures, and links to reports or spreadsheets, and can
be searched by a variety of structure, spectral, and text-based parameters.
Multi-Technique Data Handling
Chrom Workbook also includes general processing tools for mass spectrometry, NMR, IR, Raman, and other analytical techniques; support for
most instrument vendor data formats; and assistance with chemical structure confirmation.
Import chromatographic data from Waters Millennium32, Empower (all versions); Dionex Chromeleon 6; PerkinElmer TotalChrom 6.1 and
Turbochrom 4; Agilent ChemStation; NetCDF (AIA); and ASCII formats
- Import LC/UV (PDA, DAD) records associated with chromatography data from Agilent ChemStation, Waters MassLynx, Waters
Empower, and Dionex Chromeleon 6
- Perform peak picking, smoothing, baseline correction, peak integration, and peak deconvolution on single chromatograms
- Perform peak picking and baseline correction for LC/UV datasets
- Import (export) structures from (to) an SDfile; the files can contain compound names and retention times
- Manually assign chemical structures to peaks on your chromatogram
- Automatically assign chemical structures from an SDfile to labeled chromatogram peaks
- Attach multiple structures to a co-eluting peak
- Automate standard processing steps with a macro program
- Record all processing actions into the Audit Trail; transfer the Audit Trail to create a macro program to apply to subsequent
data sets
- Display a series of chromatograms on a single plot with structures, peak data, and annotations
- Export chromatographic data to ACD/Labs Spectrum, NetCDF, and ASCII formats
- Produce professional reports with one chromatogram or a series, structure assignments, method parameters, peak tables,
annotations, and more
- Add the table of structures containing chemical structures and peak data to your reports
- Create custom templates with your company logo for unified appearance of reports
- Create reports as Adobe PDF files
- Print reports according to the built-in or customized templates
- Transfer reports to other applications, such as Microsoft Word
- Search databases by chromatographic parameters, peak information, method parameters, chemical structure, chemical substructure
fragments, and user-defined data
- View database records separately, as table, in tile view, or as a custom layout
- Search by structural similarity when retrieving stored chromatographic applications
- Search by "remembering" results of different searches, and then intersecting, merging, or subtracting the result sets
from each other
- Search through multiple databases simultaneously
- Apply passwords for viewing and modifying database records
Compatible Data Formats 
Other Chromatography tools from ACD/Labs
ACD/Labs offers a number of software tools for chromatographic method development, and identification of optimal experiment
space, that are compatible with Chrom Workbook and the Spectrus Platform:
ACD/AutoChrom MDS
A complete method development and optimization toolset, with instrument control
ACD/ChromGenius
Identify the best method as a starting point for faster method development
Full List of Processing and Reporting Features