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SOFTWARE RELEASED Mass Frontier HighChem Jána Stanislava 35 84105 Bratislava Slovak Republic 421-7-71 -3551; fax 421-7-71 -4449; www. highchem. com Version 1.0; $1690
Mass Frontier manages and interprets mass spectral datafromelectron impact, chemical ionization, or electrospray ionization techniques. An integrated structure editor module provides chemical structures, including ions, radicals, isotopes, and substructures. The spectra manager module organizes mass spectral data in a spreadsheet. MS/MS libraries can be created and used to assign chemical structures to spectra; existing MS libraries such as NIST's, can also be searched on 3H unknown spectrum substructure or other criteria. Mass Frontier automatically generates possible fragments on ati "expert level" including the complete fragmentation nnd rearrangement mechanisms The software includes tools for extracting and processing spectral data from GC/MS and LC/MS techniques Mass Frontier runs under Windows 95 or NT 4 0 486 or higher 16-MB RAM suoer VGA monitor and at least 20-MB disk soace
designed experiments without recreating them, probit analysis, accelerated life testing, regression with life data, expanded distribution analysis, analysis of nonnormal data with control charts and process capability analysis, and OLE for pasting MINITAB graphs into other applications. Software requires Windows 95 or NT 3.51 or higher, 486 or higher, 16-MB RAM, and a VGA or better monitor; a math coprocessor is recommended. LabVIEW National Instruments 6504 Bridge Point Parkway Austin, TX 78730-5039 800-258-7022; fax 512-794-5759; www.natinst.com Version 5.0; $995 (Windows), $2995 (workstations), $1995 (OS)
The latest upgrade of LabVIEW includes automatic multithreading; an improved instrument wizard for creating sophisticated data-acquisition programs; distributed computing tools; an ActiveX automation server; and access to ActiveX controls and documents, documentation and translation tools for applications in HTML and RTF formats, graphical tools for comparing two LabVIEW programs, programmatic menu bars, and a multistep "undo". Iso-Chem Software Suite
MINITAB MINITAB, Inc. 3081 Enterprise Drive State College, PA 16801 814-238-3280; fax 814-238-4383; www. minitab. com release 12; $975 (academic discounts available), $300 (upgrade), $150 (academic upgrade)
The new version of this statistics package includes a projectfileformat for data management, the ability to augment and modify 408 A
ability program for periodic instrument calibration and archiving. The software requires a 233-MHz PC or faster and 32-MB RAM and a 2-GB hard disk. BalanceTalk Labtronics 95 Crimea Street Guelph, Ontario Canada N1H 2Y5 519-767-1061; fax 519-836-4431; www. labtronics. com $395
BalanceTall is s Windows-based doftware package that captures balance, scale, and indicator readings and sends them to an application or file via an RS 232 interface. Instrument data can be deposited into Excel, Lotus, Quattro, o, Access. BalanceTalk comes with spreadsheet examples of applications and can be configured by the user. This software requires Windows 95 or NT, 4-MB RAM, and, depending on version, 1or 2-MB disk space. HP ChemStore C/S Hewlett-Packard 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.hp.com $2350
HP ChemStore C/S is a scalable datatase that compares and combines data from various instruments, samples, or analytical techniques. The software also creates reports and control charts, or transfers data back to HP ChemStations for reprocessing. HP Chemstore C/S is available as an entrylevel version that runs on a single PC and This software suite enhances near-IR spectroscopic applications for raw material iden- uses Access, oo ra s alient/server rystem tification and qualification. Iso-Chem offers that uses the Oracle database. Users san upgradefromentry-level to the client/ on-screen initiation of complex routines as server version. HP Chemstore C/S runs well as remote reading of on-screen funcunder Windows 95 or NT and uses 50 MB tions. Software includes multilevel password access and system diagnosis and suit- of disk space. LT Industries 6110 Executive Blvd. Rockville, MD 20852 301-468-6777; fax 301-468-2230 $2000
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SpectrallD Galactic Industries 395 Main Street Salem, NH 03079 800-862-6004; fax 603-898-6228; www. galactic, com $895
SpectrallD is s a2-bit spectral searching application that supports popular commercial libraries. Users can search multiple libraries of different ranges and resolutions and save libraries for future searches. The software allows creation of custom libraries. SpectrallD provides seven full-spectrum search algorithms and full-spectrum, peak, or text searching methods that can be used separately or in combination. Results are displayed with spectra, search quality, and chemical and physical property information. Software requirements include 486 or higher; Windows 95 or 98, NT 4.0 or 5.0; 16-MB RAM- math co-processor' and CD-ROM drive. ChromQuest ThermoQuest 355 River Oaks Parkway San Jose, CA 95161 800-532-4752; fax 561-845-8819; www. thermoquest. com $825
ChromQuest is a new 32-bit chromatography software package that offers multitasking, handles multiple techniques (such as LC, GC, and CE), provides instrumental control of ThermoQuest and competitor instruments (such as HP's GC systems), provides custom reporting, is scalable, and offers multiple security levels. The system includes manual integration tools for tasks such as baselines, threshold, and peaks drops. Also included is software for displaying peak purity and an easy-to-build UV-vis spectral library. The software operates under Windows NT, requires 64-MB RAM, and 1-GB diikspace.
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