Informatics System Includes New Tool for Spectral Interpretation

Bio-Rad’s KnowItAll Informatics System is a fully integrated software and database package that provides scientific researchers multiple tools, including database building and management, search, analysis, structure drawing, and reporting all within a single user interface. Bio-Rad offers specialised editions of its KnowItAll system specifically customised for spectroscopy and other areas of research. The latest KnowItAll release highlights a major addition to the AnalyzeIt˙ IR spectral interpretation application. AnalyzeIt IR helps chemists interpret spectra by generating a list of all functional groups possible at specific peak positions in a spectrum. With this release, users can now link to additional reference information for each functional group in the Sadtler Handbook of Reference Spectra - IR.

This release also includes a series of new report templates for more efficient output and improved design and a function to preview spectra and chromatograms to be used for searching, interpretation, or database creation before the file is actually opened. "We continue to expand our spectral reference databases by addressing application areas and analytical techniques of interest to our customers," said Gregory M. Banik, Ph.D,

General Manager, Bio-Rad Informatics. "The combination of this ever-growing data collection with increasingly advanced yet easy-to-use software tools brings the analysis of spectral samples to a new level, turning data into solutions."