Chromatography Forum

Hi!

Our lab has an Agilent 1100 system with Chemstation, which is used by multiple people. We are looking for a free/cheap piece of software that we can use to view and integrate our chromatograms offline on our personal computers. Can anyone suggest a solution?

I have looked at openchrom, which looks like it can only process files with MS data (i.e. not from our DAD detector). Though perhaps someone knows a way around this?

Thanks in advance!

The chemstation software has an offline-mode.

You have to install the whole software with your LC licence and then just start the "Instrument Offline".

Thats the easiest and quickest way i think.

If i remember correctly you can also choose a "data view" option (orsomething like that) when trying to install the software.

Eventually that is better, but i never tried that out.

Edit: Nevermind! There is only an option for "LC/MSD Data Analysis" so i suggest to install the whole LC software and use the "Instrument Offline".

Hi schlenkline,

we are currently working on a support for other detectors than MSD in OpenChrom. The next release will contain support for FID files, but we are also working on a support for DAD files. I'm also trying to decode the Agilent DAD format at the moment. Hence, it would be greate if you could send me test files.
https://openchrom.net

In other cases, you could also try to use Aston:
http://code.google.com/p/aston


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eselmeister