A chromatography workstation built on a database and its applications

Abstract

Chromatography is a technique used to separate, quantify each component in a mixture and is widely used in chemistry and biology. In experiments, the control of the segments of the equipment, the acquisition of data, and the complex analysis of data determine the results of chromatography. The chromatography workstation is a unique tool for experimenters to make the quantitative analysis. However, the existed workstations inherit the traditional frameworks and only partially introduce the database to manage the experimental process. This paper introduces a chromatography workstation that is completely built on a database and can use high-efficient data sheets to implement a thorough procedure from the control of the equipment, data acquisition to data analysis, user management, and report printing, and therefore substantially improves the efficiency of the analysis and the maintainability of data.