ACD/Labs launches informatics platform to put data in one place

ACD/Spectrus Platform enables organizations to apply chemical context to their spectroscopy, spectrometry, and chromatography content.

It allows raw or processed data from different instruments, across laboratories to be combined into a single uniform environment for processing, interpretation, reporting, storage, and re-use.

David Hardy, MS product manager, at ACD/Labs, told FoodQualityNews.com that the ultimate aim is to capture the knowledge and put the data to good use later on.

“We have algorithms that can take data such as GC-MS and in the case of a customer who has a manufacturing process they are happy with a particular run and define that as the gold standard, if they get a sample returned with some form of contaminant in, the software can compare that against the gold standard and try and determine what the contaminant is.​

“Once the contaminant has been determined or even if it hasn’t been determined maybe you’ve just got a mass of something, that can be stored in the Spectrus database and can be referenced for future use.”      ​

He added analytical data could include mass spectrometry, NMR, chromatography, curve data and chrome data.