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

Integrated Data Processing and Management for Spectroscopic, Chromatographic and Analytical Curves

Antony Williams, Alexey Pastutsan and Alexey Surnin

Abstract

Today a plethora of analytical techniques are used to characterize a particular chemical compound or material as it migrates from research and discovery through scale-up to manufacturing. These techniques include the multiple forms of spectroscopy and chromatography, hyphenated techniques and other analytical techniques that produce "curves" including electrochemistry and thermal analysis. The lifecycle of any particular compound can originate with spectra to identify the structure, chromatograms to separate the material and other technologies to characterize its performance. To date it has not been possible to manage all of this associated analytical data, together with associated chemical structure information, in a single unifying interface and the need for an integrated system for processing and management of all associated data persists. This talk will introduce a component-based solution toolkit which can address the diverse needs to processing and data management for multiple forms of analytical data and make available across an enterprise using both desktop and web-enabled architectures.