Thermo Fisher Scientific Exhibits New Software Control for the Accela High-speed LC System Featuring Atlas CDS

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced it will showcase its new Thermo Scientific Atlas CDS™ add-on control software for the Thermo Scientific Accela™ high-speed liquid chromatography system. The solution offers integrated instrument control, digital data acquisition, chromatography data processing and reporting. The award-winning Atlas Chromatography Data System (CDS) provides chromatographers with a client/server chromatography-based software solution available for controlling the Accela system. The new software control capabilities are exhibited for the first time at the Thermo Scientific booth 1741 at PITTCON 2008, being held March 3–6 in New Orleans.

A new Atlas Extension Kit integrates full instrument control and chromatography data handling for the Accela high-speed pump, autosampler and PDA detector, and it is designed to integrate the rapid data analysis, processing and reporting of Atlas with the high-speed liquid chromatography (LC) separations of the Accela. The unique Accela high-speed LC with sub 2-micron particle columns can operate at the standard pressures of conventional HPLC to 15,000 psi and separate samples faster, with better resolution and efficiency, all in a single instrument.

Thermo Scientific Atlas CDS provides a highly scalable client/server environment for laboratory LAN and WAN networks in drug development, discovery, QA/QC laboratories, academia and the food and beverage industries. Designed as a multi-user, multi-instrument data system, it enables remote network access to any Accela system so that data can be fully collected, secured and protected – enabling organizations to make better-informed decisions faster. Atlas software control for the Accela system is available immediately in version 8.2.

In addition, Atlas provides seamless integration of laboratory CDS results with enterprise-wide laboratory information management systems (LIMS), including the full range of Thermo Scientific LIMS: SampleManager, the flagship offering for industrial applications; Watson, the industry standard for bioanalytical laboratories and CROs; Galileo, which enables high-throughput compound screening for in vitro ADME screening; Nautilus, for dynamic environments requiring a flexible solution that can be easily modified as workflows change, such as contract research organizations; and the award-winning GRAMS spectroscopy software.

Also on display will be a “sneak preview” of a next-generation Thermo Scientific CDS that integrates with LIMS and other data management systems to control liquid chromatography-gas chromatography instruments and modules from numerous vendors in a manner compliant with FDA regulations, including 21 CFR Part 11.