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UNIFI: The user environment
Ken Eglinton Nordic User Training, September 2013
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What is UNIFI?
Single Platform for Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Data
Management and Laboratory Workflow
Intuitive User Interface
Solution for Regulated and Non-Regulated Laboratories
Scalable Open Architecture
Complete Application Solutions
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Topics Covered
My Work
Sample submission
Result review
Reporting results
Signing reports
Qualification and maintenance
Other
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The Review Workflow
What we mean by Workflow
Combines
– Filters
– Injections and Components
– Limits
– Custom Fields
– Screen Layout
– Displayed controls, table columns
User customizable
Allows you to review the data in a
approach that is relevant to you
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User interface tools adjusts to roles and capabilities of users
Leverage workflow steps to facilitate the review of your bioanalytical
quantitative experiment results…
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User interface tools adjusts to roles and capabilities of users
…or a biopharmaceutical peptide map…
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User interface tools adjusts to roles and capabilities of users
…or a biopharmaceutical intact protein (reduced)…
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User interface tools adjusts to roles and capabilities of users
…or a metabolite identification experiment with
biotransformation information…
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User interface tools adjusts to roles and capabilities of users
…or a pesticide screen quantification
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Reusing parts of a report
Graphic
– Copy = Copies image to clipboard
– Extract = Saves image as a file
(bmp, jpg, gif, tif, png, emf)
Text
– Copy = Copies text to clipboard
– Extract = Saves text as a file (txt,
html, csv, xml)
Export
– Exports the whole report as a pdf
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The Designer – Report Objects
If there is a plot or table in Review, there’s a report object for it!
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The Designer
Each object can be…
– Customized w/ object-specific properties
– Tweaked for optimal appearance
o Style & color of fonts, plots & tables
– Filtered & Ordered
– Grouped together
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File Import/Conversion
– MassLynx Raw (individually or from
Sample List) to UNIFI Sample Set
– Documents (pdf, Microsoft Office)
to UNIFI reports
File Export/Conversion
– UNIFI Sample Set to MassLynx Raw
– UNIFI reports to pdf documents
Results Export
– Table export
– Report extraction templates
Print from...
Sign and approve electronically
Search capabilities
Data Repository Tools in UNIFI
SOP
Reports
Raw Data Files
Training
References
Papers
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Custom fields and formulas
What are they?
– Sample or component descriptors
o Batch number, label claim, sample submitter, …
– Component or peak calculations
o Wide variety of formulas possible:
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Custom fields and formulas
Stored in a single pool & accessible from the analysis method
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Custom fields and formulas
How do I edit formulas?
Can optimize formulas in context with the data within an analysis.
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§58.63 Maintenance and calibration of equipment
Managing Qualification
Processes and Documentation
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UNIFI Qualification Centre
Perform instrument and software qualifications automatically
– Modules
– Instrument as Systems
– PC’s
Record Maintenance and Qualification Events
Store qualification reports/results electronically
Store Firmware versions as well as ID of modules
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§58.63 Maintenance and calibration of equipment
Documentation of Maintenance Activities
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Key Feature – UNIFI Scientific Library
Search Component Information
Produce Candidate Hit List
Records Optimized Instrument
settings
Precursor & Product Masses
Absorbance Wavelengths
Optimum CV & CE
Chromatography Settings
Use to construct New Methods
Record Observed Analytical
Data
Mass, RT, Wavelength,
Drift
Spectra, Chromatograms
Mass Fingerprints
Store data for
Different Techniques
o UV, MS, IR, NMR
Multiple Instruments
Varied System settings
Periodic measurements
Small Molecules, Proteins &
Peptides
Physical Properties
Formula, Structure,
Sequence
Experimental Notes
Associated Articles
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Quick Search
Always available & easily
accessible
Searches all folders you have
access to
Includes: raw data, processed
results, reports, methods,
imported documents
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For more…
Attend the UNIFI Administration Environment workshop
– Data Folder Hierarchy and Roles/Permissions
– User Accounts
– Security Checks
o Assigned Roles
– Data Folders and Access Grants
o Access Grants Rules/Behaviors
o Stopping Inheritance
– Global Policies and Folder Policies
– Offline Storage Manager