Spectral ID Server
 Spectral
ID Server allows centralized storage of all spectral libraries and
ensures fast searches even across slow network connections. |
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 Scientific’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.
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 NT 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 con- figuring 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.
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