| Spectral ID Server
 Share valuable commercial and user defined spectral libraries throughout
your organisation. Libraries in multiple vendor formats can be searched
on the server and a hit list rapidly returned to the client.
Product
Detail
Spectral ID Server extends the capabilities of Spectral ID to enable
client/server searching over networks. Spectral ID Server works with
Spectral ID, the client, to allow colleagues in the same lab or across
the country to easily share, create, and maintain centralized sets
of commercial and user-created spectral libraries.
In combination with Spectral ID, the server performs highly accurate
full spectrum searches at speeds of 20,000 compounds per second and
even faster text and peak searches. It can create and search libraries
for a vast number of analytical techniques including IR, Raman, Mass
Spec, UV-VIS, Fluorescence, and NIR. It supports most commercially
available libraries including Sigma-Aldrich, Chemical Concepts, Thermo
Nicolet, NIST, Wiley, and other vendors. Using Thermo Galactic’s
SmartConvert™ technology, the software can automatically read,
open, and search data files from over 150 different analytical instruments.
Adding Spectral ID Server to the extensive capabilities of Spectral
ID provides more power and increases laboratory productivity.
Spectral ID Server allows centralized storage of all spectral libraries
and ensures fast searches even across slow network connections.
True Client-Server Architecture
Installing Spectral ID Server on a Windows server, along with commercial
and private collections of spectral libraries, allows rapid, corporate-wide
spectral searching. Because Spectral ID Server uses a true client/server
architecture, the network server does all the spectral searching.
The client workstation simply submits the unknowns and receives the
results. As little information as possible travels across the network
connection, allowing searches to be completed quickly and efficiently.
Centralized storage of libraries provides all networked users with
complete access to the collections from their own workstations, reducing
the time and frustration of each user maintaining their own spectral
libraries.
The combination of client/server technology and extensive support
of commercial libraries and data file formats makes Spectral ID Server
an invaluable tool in the analytical laboratory. The advantages of
this breakthrough technology are summarized below.
Efficient Data Sharing and Management
Sharing spectral libraries in or between laboratories can be problematic.
Libraries are often stored on workstations dedicated to spectral
searching, making it difficult or impossible for researchers in different
labs to use the libraries. This often results in an organization
owning and maintaining several separate copies of the same spectral
library. Compatibility issues between databases and software programs
are also roadblocks to data sharing. Even when access and compatibility
issues are addressed, efficiently managing these large libraries
is time consuming and tedious.
The client/server architecture behind Spectral ID Server allows all
commercial and private libraries owned by an organization to be installed
on a Windows server. Storing libraries in a central location provides
all networked clients with easy access to the data and prevents library
duplication. Because Spectral ID Server supports most commercial libraries,
as well as virtually any analytical instrument’s data format,
software compatibility is never an issue. Managing libraries is easy
too. Because the data is centrally stored, tracking, updating and configuring
are all managed at one time from a single location. This saves time
and ensures that all users are working with the most current versions
of the data. Rights and restrictions can be granted for creating, editing,
and searching all server-based libraries.
Speed
Spectral searching can be time consuming. Different software products
may be required to search each vendor’s library, forcing search
results or "hit lists" to be manually merged. Working with
so many different software data formats can be troublesome, often
forcing researchers to export their data to different file formats
just to address compatibility issues.
Even when data format compatibility is not an issue, searching can
still be very time consuming. Unless true client/server architecture
is employed, the entire library collection must be downloaded across
the network to the researcher’s computer each time an unknown
is searched. If libraries are large, and network connections not optimal,
this process can be painfully slow, frustrating the researcher and
anyone else trying to access information from the network.
Spectral ID Server’s client/server architecture makes spectral
searching fast. During a search, the Spectral ID client uploads the
unknown spectrum and relevant searching parameters to the central server.
Spectral ID Server then compares the unknown spectrum to the selected
libraries stored on the network server. Once the computations are complete,
the software downloads a "hit list" of potential matches
to the client. The user can then compare the unknown spectrum to the
list. Because calculations are performed on the Windows NT server hosting
the spectral libraries, only the unknown spectrum and hit list results
travel across the network connection to the client. Minimal data is
transferred, accelerating spectral searching.
Spectral ID Server provides unmatched flexibility for sharing commercial
and private spectral libraries. |
