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Ryan Sasaki
This is a continuation of a series of posts that began here. I learned an interesting lesson a few years ago when I was presenting our software on-site to a group of chemists. I began the demonstration by opening up an FID. The response from most of the room was a mix of confusion as...

Ryan Sasaki
This is the continuation of a series of posts that began here. Have you ever worked in an environment where there was a walk-up NMR lab? If yes, were you fortunate enough to have software in your office or lab where you could view, process, and print out your own plots at your convenience? If...

Ryan Sasaki
This post will mark the beginning of a series of several posts. Please note that for this particular series I am talking mostly about medicinal or synthetic chemists who acquire their own NMR data in an open access environment. Many chemists in the industry use our software, and when we were doing market research and...

Ryan Sasaki
One of the really nice things that has been available in our software for many years has been the ability to characterize multiplet patterns and coupling constants and to quickly generate a multiplet report like this one: 1H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6)  ppm 0.96 (t, J=7.30 Hz, 3 H) 1.27 (t, J=7.18 Hz, 6...

Ryan Sasaki
As I mentioned in my last post, with the release of Version 12 out of the door, there are many new and exciting things to explore in our latest release outside of the NMR Workbook. For me, one of the things that I continue to be amazed about are how much the little things matter...

Ryan Sasaki
A few months back, I referenced Derek Lowe’s excellent blog, "In the Pipeline" Some of the most interesting entries for me are: Backtracking, Necessary, and UnnecessaryI Can Has Ugly Molecules? Oops. One of the take home messages for me, is when Derek says, "False Negatives and False Positives are waiting in your dataset, depend on...

Ryan Sasaki
I’ve been away for the better part of the last few months, haven’t been able to spend anytime blogging, and I apologize for those of you who have subscribed to the blog and anticipate hearing from me on a regular basis. During my travels I have had a lot of discussions about ACD/1D NMR Assistant...

Ryan Sasaki
I’ve blogged several times about the progress and applications of automated structure verification with the help of ACD/Labs software. There are really two main approaches right now: Combined verification which includes automatically verifying the correspondence between a proposed chemical structure and the 1D 1H and 2D HSQC spectra. I’ve blogged about the publications and applications...

Ryan Sasaki
To follow my post from yesterday, Rich made a very interesting comment that I was hoping to address in today’s post. He suggests that perhaps a NMR Lite would be a good approach. I gave reason as to why we didn’t take that approach and strip away existing features from 1D NMR Processor when developing...

Ryan Sasaki
I had a conversation with Geoff, one of my ACD/Labs colleagues just yesterday. He provided me with a great quote from a person he was talking to about software and usability. He said: "User-Friendly…hrmph…what that means to me is: love it for the first week, hate it forever!" I think that’s a great quote. I...