Agilent's new OpenLAB Intelligence Reporter is a module designed for the company's OpenLAB system to assist analytical chemists and lab managers meet reporting requirements in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.
The module offers database reporting capabilities for analytical data acquired through Agilent OpenLAB or Agilent ChemStation data systems. These systems include tools such as visualisation of pass/fail criteria, and content-based result presentation that help customers streamline result reviews and approvals.
The module allows users to perform simple and advanced calculations such as calculating summary, statistics and multi-level calculations using the integrated calculation module.
Other features include the generation of decision-based result presentations, which flag outliers and automatically sort results by pass/fail criteria.
"Our goal is to help customers achieve a paperless lab, and Agilent OpenLAB Intelligence Reporter is a solid step in this direction," said Markus Jaquemar, marketing director, Agilent Life Sciences Solutions Unit.
"Now customers can obtain a package for creating and reviewing reports, integrated into Agilent OpenLAB Enterprise Content Manager."
Despite the technological advances of recent decades, most laboratories today still use some form of paper-based documentation system. Paper systems have been productive but are now outdated, considering the available electronic alternatives. Current high-throughput methods are crying out for documentation options that are less susceptible to human-generated errors.
Agilent hopes to put enough resources into their paperless lab efforts to cause ripples throughout the laboratory equipment industry. It maintains that paperless labs, in general, save time because the electronic acquisition and analysis of data is faster than equivalent processes based on paper.
Efficiency is increased as data in electronic form can be shared more quickly with all members of the research group, which speeds up the decision-making processes for the next steps in the experiment.
Meanwhile medicinal and analytical chemistry tool specialists Biotage, make available its new Evolute CX sample preparation range.
The products are a mixed-mode resin-based SPE sorbent for the extraction of basic drugs from biological fluids using a generic procedure, minimizing method development time for bioanalysts.
Evolute CX removes protein, phospholipids, and salt interferences, delivering cleaner extracts with high reproducibility for accurate quantitation and trouble-free analyses through pre-clinical and clinical trials.
Biotage is in the midst of a business refocus, having recently displayed its Evolute ABN 50 µm range at Pittcon, held this year in New Orleans. The sample preparation products are intended for use in environmental, forensic and industrial applications.
Biotage plans to shift its business focus to the environmental analysis sector - an industry on the rise as soaring world population demands more efficient and safe laboratory technologies to deal with waste, hazardous materials and cleaning.
However, the launch of the Evolute CX range is proof that the company have not abandoned its interests in drug research and sample analysis.
The range combines robust polymer chemistry with uniform coverage of sulfonic acid (SO3-) groups and optimum exchange capacity. The result provides greater than 85 per cent recovery on a broad range of sample matrices.
The surface characteristics of every batch are tested to ensure consistency and a combination of optimised pore size, sorbent chemistry and associated generic method results in clean extracts ready for LC-MS/MS analysis
And finally, Ruskinn Technology makes available its new gas mixer designed to control hypoxic or anoxic conditions during the study of cell interactions.
Designed to interact with the Invivo2 hypoxic workstations, the gas mixing system provides close control over O2 from 0.00-20.90 per cent and CO2 from 0.00-30.00 per cent through incremental steps of 0.10 per cent (2 decimal places) for accuracy.
Gas Mixer Q is suitable for researchers who perform experiments under low oxygen tension and those investigating the specific effects of CO2 on cells.
The Gas Mixer Q is available as a retro-fit kit for all existing Invivo2 placements, as well as being included as standard on all new Invivo2 workstations, so that any Ruskinn Invivo2 cabinet can be upgraded to have precise CO2 as well as O2 control.
By connecting an N2/H2 line to the rear of the gas mixer and the addition of a catalyst into the workstation chamber, the chamber can be run in Anoxic mode via the gas mixer for added flexibility.
The gas mixer uses the O2 sensor to achieve an initial low level oxygen percentage and the over-run timer allows the extra N2/H2 to be flushed into the chamber to ensure the cabinet is completely free of oxygen.
Event logging (date, time, O2 per cent and CO2 per cent) of gas trends allows for reporting of gas conditions on a time based frequency. Data can easily be downloaded from the Gas Mixer Q to an external PC or data drive for further analysis via the in-built USB communications port.
