Functionalities / Features

GENERAL

• • Compatibility: Windows NT, XP, VISTA, 7, 8, 10
  • User-friendly interface – only three screens to manage everything in QC mode: Settings, Data entry, Visualisation of the comparison + one PDF report
  • Only one more screen in Retention Index for the identification of a molecule or a raw material
  • Possibility to call GC-LC Concordance from an external software and vice versa

DATA ACQUISITION

• • Acquisition from any brands in the market (Agilent, PerkinElmer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waters, Shimadzu etc.)
  • Acquisition from any type of detectors in GC, LC, GC-MS (FID, MS, ECD, MPD, UV etc.)
  • Data acquisition from Servers

DATA ENTRY IN THE SAME SEQUENCE, IN RETENTION TIME OR RETENTION INDEX (KOVATS INDEX)

• • Fast entry of one or many samples and one or many and different control samples – up to 500 per sequence
  • Possibility to link control samples to coded samples automatically
  • Entry of one chromatogram to be compared to thousands of chromatograms on one line of a sequence (Applications: e-nose, counterfeiting, the origin of a product etc.)
  • Automatic creation of a sequence after the comparison of one to thousands of chromatograms
  • Entry of one or many different alkanes chromatograms in Retention Index mode in the same sequence (E.g. Polar and Non Polar)
  • Run the automatic comparison of one, many or all the lines of the sequence with one click

SETTINGS OF THE COMPARISONS OF COMPLEX CHROMATOGRAMS

• • Filters to remove background noise and saturated peaks
  • Customizable relative and absolute tolerances between the peaks area of the sample and the control sample
  • Thresholds of concentrations to control each peak following norms or specifications imposed by your clients
  • Possibility to work on the full chromatogram fingerprint or only a portion of it
  • Protection of the method of the sequence with a password

VISUAL COMPARISON OF COMPLEX CHROMATOGRAMS

• • One page to see in a graphic and in a table the results of the comparison between two chromatograms (missing peaks, out of tolerance etc.)
  • View all the peaks or only the peaks out of tolerance and missing in the table
  • Continuous zoom on the same page to better visualize any part of the comparison of the two chromatograms
  • Comment/add the name of the molecules of any peaks
  • Possibility to transfer all the information added to your control sample to a new control sample in two clicks
  • Possibility to add new peaks in a control sample (E.g. for the control of allergens etc.)
  • Possibility to substract a raw material in a mixture
  • Possibility to switch to manual mode to match up to 6 couple of peaks (for specific applications)
  • Possibility to mix many control samples into one averaged control sample
  • Possibility to memorize the profiles of two columns (for specific applications, E.g. RT realignment and creation of a new chromatogram with RT correction)
  • Possibility to enter a response factor for one or many groups of peaks
  • Possibility to enter specific concentrations (Quantification)

RETENTION INDEX OR KOVATS INDEX: ALL FEATURES ABOVE PLUS…

• • The automatic retention time conversion into retention index with a chromatogram of alkanes or any other indices reference (internal or external)
  • Add your own database of molecules and raw materials
  • Molecule identification with your own retention index database of molecules
  • Raw materials identification with your own retention index database of raw materials
  • Cross the identification with two databases for a precise identification (polar and non polar)
  • Cross the identification with the formulation of your product
  • Graphic identification of a raw material in a mixture with the estimated concentration of the raw material with one click
  • Automatic identification of each peak of your chromatogram with a database of RI (E.g. Allergens, DB, WAX…)

REPORT

• • Full report with all the peaks, or report with only the peaks out of tolerance and the missing peaks (with colors and signs to identify quicker)
  • One matching score between two chromatograms based on three different calculations
  • Report with QC and/or Norm information
  • Presence of the personalized threshold on each peak of the chromatograms
  • Export of the data in the report into a CSV file (Excel…)
  • Possibility to create a new chromatogram with the corrected retention time.