Chromatography Methods Development System

Gensym's G2 Lab Expert is an autonomous system for chromatography methods development and execution that can increase laboratory productivity and throughput. The system:

• Automates repetitive methods development processes, freeing up scientists to perform more value-added activities and increasing laboratory productivity
• Intelligently schedules laboratory equipment, improving equipment utilization
• Monitors and diagnoses equipment problems, reducing laboratory downtime

The system integrates LC instruments, sample descriptors, experiment constraints and method goals to develop robust separation methods. It emulates the actions and decisions of the separations scientist by automating the time-consuming, repetitive task sequence of method planning, development, execution, and interpretation.

The system provides the following capabilities for increasing laboratory productivity and throughput:

• Automatic HPLC separation method development using the expert knowledge of scientists
• Automatic identification of ideal separation method for isocratic and reversed-phase systems
• Post-run analyses, method results interpretation and recommendations for subsequent runs
• Supervisory control and scheduling of HPLC stations

Lab Expert can integrate, coordinate and control laboratory equipment and robotics from multiple vendors. Its system architecture reduces maintenance requirements and enhances extensibility to additional areas of analytical expertise. An audit trail of decisions and actions performed by the system can be archived in standard relational databases.

Gensym Corporation, 125 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140. Tel: 617-547-2500.