Chromatography Data System Software Enhancements

The ChromSword® Group is pleased to announce the release of a new Automated Method Development interface for its ChromSwordAuto® product and the Dionex Chromeleon® CDS software. This new interface was developed in cooperation with Dionex Corporation and allows combining Dionex UltiMate® 3000 instruments with powerful tools for method development offered by ChromSword. The new solution uses Chromeleon software to control the instrument and sequence data and optimised instrument methods are stored in the Chromeleon database for later use. The ChromSwordAuto interface features include automatic search for optimal separation conditions including column switching, solvent selection, and gradient optimisation. The options are set in the ChromSwordAuto interface and automatically transferred to Chromeleon software.

“The new solution makes method development a lot easier, especially when combined with the column and solvent switching capabilities of the UltiMate 3000 HPLC product line,” said Andreas Brunner, Product Manager, Chromatography Software, LSBU Dionex. Dr Sergey Galushko, Head of the ChromSword Group development team, stated: “Chromeleon and ChromSwordAuto are very powerful software systems. The combination of ChromSwordAuto intelligent method development tools with Chromeleon flexible instrument control functionalities will provide a major benefit to our customers. Using ChromSwordAuto and Chromeleon in tandem allows a chromatographer to run all method development tasks fully automatically: this includes method scouting, impurity profiling, fine optimisations, and robustness tests. I am confident that this combination will substantially reduce method development time for Chromeleon and ChromSwordAuto users.” The ChromSword Group is an organisation of international scientists, analytical and physical chemists, mathematicians and programmers dedicated to the automation of chromatographic method development and validation processes. ChromSword products are used worldwide for computer-assisted and fully automatic method development.