Freeware column selection tool for PDAs helps chromatographers select the optimal column to use, taking the uncertainty out of column selection
Advanced Chemistry Development announces the release of Column Selector, a freeware column selection tool for Palm OS-based PDAs that helps chromatographers select the optimal column to use, taking the uncertainty out of column selection.
This tool enables the chromatographer to search a knowledge base of 135 characterised columns in order to locate those that have the properties best suited to the separation at hand.
Since each parameter can be targeted individually, chromatographers can also search for columns that have high coefficients for a certain term, allowing them to change their columns to target a given structural aspect.
ACD/Column Selector is included with ACD/Labs' chromatographic software version 7.0, and can be adapted to run on a PC.
Free downloads of ACD/Column Selector are available from the ACD website.
"This application makes a huge body of recent chromatographic research by Mel Euerby and Patrik Petersson of AstraZeneca available to the public.
"It is very exciting for our first Palm chromatography application to be based on such a new and interesting science," comments Michael McBrien, chromatography product manager at ACD Labs.
