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Joel Michalski
Mass spectrometry has changed a lot over the last 20 years, and it’ll change even more over the next 20. Some of that change has been driven by hardware advances, but we’re also capable of collecting, analyzing, organizing, and storing a lot more data. How have the last 20 years looked, and what are the...

Joel Michalski
The wealth of analytical information that is generated every day in R&D organizations can provide rich insights, even months after the initial acquisition of data. With this increase in data, however, comes a significant challenge to combine, organize, access, visualize, and mine these informational repositories. In addition to the challenges of the growing volume and...

Joel Michalski
Improvements in mass spectrometry have generated an increasing demand for analysis of more complicated samples by mass spectrometry (MS). While liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) are effective at reducing sample complexity, co-elution of components is still not entirely avoidable. The reality of today’s lab is: A variety of instrument configurations and a multitude...

Joel Michalski
Current deformulation scientists face MASSive exSPECtations—they are required to detect, screen, and identify unknowns with increasing efficiency despite shrinking analytical group sizes, pressure to perform more diverse activities, increased outsourcing of work, and slow, tedious, and error-prone methods. As a result analysts are left with much less time to devote to complex deformulation projects, while...

Sherry Myles
Implementation of ACD/Spectrus as an analytical data management system helps researchers and students streamline NMR and MS data processing, interpretation, collaboration, and training Toronto, CANADA (June 12, 2018) — ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes solutions in support of R&D, today announced that the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSUJ), a prominent German academic institution, selected...

Joel Michalski
The technological development of LC-MS instrumentation has led to significant improvements of performance and sensitivity, enabling high-throughput analysis of complex samples, such as plant extracts. Most software suites allow preprocessing of LC-MS chromatograms to obtain comprehensive information on single constituents. However, more advanced processing needs, such as the systematic and unbiased comparative metabolite profiling of...

Sherry Myles
Deployment of ACD/Spectrus software provides an efficient, common software environment for data processing and analysis, helping scientists leverage analytical knowledge. Toronto, CANADA (Oct. 19, 2016)—ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes solutions in support of R&D, today announced that Willmar Schwabe Pharmaceuticals, a leading phytopharmaceuticals company,  selected software on the ACD/Spectrus Platform to aid...

Sherry Myles
Streamlining Analytical Data Interpretations at the University of Angers Angers, France (May 19, 2015)—The Plant & Environmental research division at the University of Angers houses a wide group of research teams working at the cutting edge of their respective fields. Recently the Naturally Occurring Substances and Structural Analogues (SONAS) group added ACD/NMR Workbook Suite, ACD/MS...

Joel Michalski
Performance of several library search algorithms (against EI mass spectral databases) implemented in commercial software products (ACD/SpecDB, ChemStation, GC/MS Solution, and MS Search) was estimated. Test set contained 1000 mass spectra, which were randomly selected from NIST’08 (RepLib) mass spectral database. It was shown that composite (also known as identity) algorithm implemented in ms search...

Sherry Myles
Building an Analytical Knowledge Management System at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Strasbourg Strasbourg, France (March 18, 2015)—At the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Strasbourg houses (France) a diverse group of research teams work at the interface between chemistry and biology. Recently the “Plateforme d’Analyse Chimique de Strasbourg Illkirch” (PACSI)...