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Chromeleon CDS Seminar

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Report Your Data

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Introduction

• Reporting your data is the final step in the analysis process and can be done in multiple ways:

• Immediate overview of results• Use customized reports to meet reporting requirements• Report laboratory-wide results• Print or export results in various formats

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Reporting Data

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Immediate Result Overview

• What if I only want to see “the numbers”?

View results without opening sequence data

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Report Your data – Customize Reports

• To meet reporting requirements customized reports need to be created• Limited chromatography reporting options

• Additional calculations might be required to obtain final results

• To avoid this, often results are transferred to a spreadsheet, e.g. Microsoft® Excel®

• Time consuming

• Error prone - transcription errors

• No dynamic updating

• No spreadsheet versioning / change tracking

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Report Designer

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Chromeleon CDS Report Templates…

… can have as many worksheets as required

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Many

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Chromeleon CDS Report Templates…

… can contain text and variables

Text Variables VariablesText

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Chromeleon CDS Report Templates…

… can include result tables

Peak Tables

Summary Tables

Audit Trails

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Chromeleon CDS Report Templates…

… can include various plot types

Chromatogram

Calibration

Spectrum

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Chromeleon CDS Report Templates…

… and can even include custom equations…

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Chromeleon CDS Report Templates…

… and charts

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Chromeleon CDS Report Templates…

… to create the report you need

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Reporting in Chromeleon CDS

• Powerful and versatile spreadsheet based reporting engine• Selection of predefined templates• Present results as required• Instant automatic update when source data changes• No validation issues when exporting to external software

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Report Checking

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Report Your Data – Check for Errors

• Customized reports require error checking and validation• Time consuming

• Difficult to locate errors

• Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ Chromeleon™ CDS provides a built-in error check for report templates:• Automatic check for every entry in the entire report

• Simple interface to easily correct any errors

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Report Template Error Check

• Save time• Increase reliability• Simplifies report validation

Error and location

Automatic Selection

Immediately fix error

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Data Visualization

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Data Visualization

• In the lab the following questions arise:• How can I take a look at the trends in my data?

• How do I get my historical and current data in one overview?

• How do I visualize my data in understandable and easy to read charts?

• How often do my system suitability tests fail?

• Etcetera…

• Presenting the data in a graphical way clarifies a lot• Use the embedded charting tools

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Data Visualization

• Interactive charts for data visualization• Fully customizeable• Templates for the most common tasks• Available for both the view

settings and report templates

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Interactive Charts

• Visualize all your dynamically linked data in interactive charts

Selected injection is indicated in the chart

Chart shows results of selected peak

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Report the Right Data

• Sometimes it is required to report specific data• All injections where the amount of a component is above a certain level

• All Check Standards from a specific analysis

• All injections that failed a System Suitability Test (SST)

• All injections from all instruments in a lab from the past year

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• This can be like searching for a needle in a haystack• Find single or multiple samples in data structure or database

• Collated data needs to be reported

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Injection Query

• A set of search criteria used to find a particular injection or group of injections• Quick Search Criteria rules define criteria for simple database

searches

• Computed Criteria rules define criteria for searches that require Chromeleon CDS to calculate values of variables

• Can be reported as a regular sequence

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Injection Query - Example

Query always available

Search Criteria

Query Results

Associated Reports

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Injection Query Report - Example

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Example: Instrument Usage Statistics

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Injection Queries and Reporting

• Locate samples with a single mouse-click• Easily create database queries without advanced

database knowledge• Search based on any combination of parameters• Directly access and report search results

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Report Printing/Exporting

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Multiple Output Formats

• Reporting Data = Printing ?

• Nowadays reporting is often done in in electronic format• PDF or spreadsheet for customer

• Result export as text or GAML file for LIMS

• Chromeleon CDS provides automatic printing or exporting of sequence results with just two clicks

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• Multiple output formats for all purposes:• Portable document format (PDF)

• Excel (XLS)

• Text files (TXT)

• Generalized Analytical Markup Language (GAML)

• AnDI/NetCDF file format (CDF)

Multiple Output Formats

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Advantages of using Chromeleon CDS

• Save time• No need to (manually) transfer data from Chromeleon CDS to an

external spreadsheet

• One click report of laboratory wide data

• Reduce errors• Transcription errors are prevented when data is not transferred

• Automatic overview of errors in report

• Dynamic updating of results• Changes in raw data (e.g. integration is adjusted) are immediately

displayed in report

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Summary

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Summary

• Powerful and versatile spreadsheet based reporting engine for any report requirement

• Built-in error checking for increased reliability and simplified report validation

• Easy data overview with embedded charting tools• Laboratory-wide reporting with powerful combination of

injection queries and report templates• Improved connectivity with multiple output formats

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Summary – Bringing It All Together

Error Check

ChartingSpreadsheet

Output Formats

Chromeleon CDS has all the tools to help you report your data to your requirements!

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Thank You!

Any Questions?