Version 5.0

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Summary

lyticOS 5.0 is the latest major release of the software suite and comes with many improvements.

lyticOS 5.0 represents the first step on the road to a unified software suite used across Elementar instrumentation.

Find out more about lyticOS Software Suite from our website here.

Highlighted Features:

  • New Charts Control

  • New Batch Comparison View

  • New Data Viewer License (Free Product)

  • LIMS Export (Automatic)

  • Automatic Archive Export

Charts

lyticOS 5.0 introduces a brand-new chart experience. The new charts are much more performant (e.g. when dealing with hundreds of GC peaks) and also support many new interaction features, as well as all the previously existing capabilities.

 

Features

  • Fast and can handle hundreds of peaks

  • Improved layout resulting in less white space and larger rendered chart surface

  • Legend allowing individual series to be quickly shown / hidden

  • New overview panel allows for easy panning through the whole chart while zoomed in

  • Scroll wheel to zoom into a point of the chart

  • CTRL and scroll wheel to pan vertically

  • SHIFT and scroll wheel to pan horizontally

  • CTRL or SHIFT and drag to pan around the chart

  • Auto scaling feature allows for automatic axis scaling while panning

  • Double click zoom out / fit to view

    • also enables the auto scaling on all axes

  • Advanced configure view with additional display options

  • Show Beams, Ratios and Ratio Differentiations

  • Define beam / ratio labels, colours, visibility and axis visibility

  • Rubber band zoom box

  • Major x and y grid lines

  • Cursor cross hair tooltip displaying value

  • x and y cross hair values displayed

  • Axis tick values auto switch between decimal and scientific notation

  • Peak highlighting with calculation markers

  • Custom annotations

  • Zoom undo (CTRL+Z) and redo (CTRL+Y)

  • Legend shown on top of the chart instead of shifting the chart

  • Be able to shift and zoom beyond chart limits

  • Easily modify upper or lower zoom boundary by dragging within axis boundaries

    • Drag within lower half of axis to change the lower zoom boundary

  • Easy panning in any direction (with horizontal zoom level)

    • Press the CTRL key (or the SHIFT key) while clicking and dragging within the chart area

  • Easy panning within an axis by right clicking and dragging within it

  • y axis can either be fixed or auto scale to the current y data within the window

    • Change the axis scale by dragging

  • Axis scroll wheel to zoom in on the axis at the particular mouse point

  • Axis double click to enable the auto scaling feature

  • All features supported by appropriate touch interactions and context menu

  • Export chart data to CSV

  • Save / copy chart image (png, xps)

  • Customize highlighted peak format

    • Peak fill transparency

    • Peak border thickness

    • Selected peak color

    • Improve layout of the configure view dialog.

    • Peak Labels

      • Custom font size

      • Custom render behaviour (all, auto, none)

  • Overlay readbacks on top of primary acquisition data sets

 

Peak Comments

Detected peaks are automatically highlighted and additional annotations are added to describe how an integration has been performed.

Custom annotations and annotations can be manually added to any chart. Custom annotations are pinned to a target y-axis, so that they remain relative to their drawn location when zooming or panning within a chart.

Custom Annotation Types

  • Line

  • Arrow

  • Text

  • Horizontal Line

  • Vertical Line

  • Cross

  • Diamond

  • Point

 

IRMS Chart Features (common to IRMS EA, GC, iso DUAL inlet processing)

  • Double click a peak to select it or unselect it

  • Right click to select or unselect a peak (and show or hide background integration details)

  • Double click away from a peak (if fully zoomed out will unselect a peak)

  • Right click to edit the data processing parameters

  • Right click to perform peak boundary and baseline refinement

 

IRMS+EA Batch Features

  • Select multiple samples and performing peak changes will ask the user if changes should apply to all selected samples

  • Charts view has been changed to remove the tile view, with no ability to maximize or minimize a species. Improved usage of available screen space.

  • Analysis / data processing peaks tab now shows peaks for all species (not just the currently “selected” dataset which was selected in the previous “tile” view)

 

IRMS + GC Batch Features

  • Right click to perform peak integration refinement and apply to the map

  • Right click to edit peak assignments

  • Drag + drop from compound library onto the chart will set or add a peak to the map

  • Right click to include or exclude visible peaks

 

IRMS Features

  • The new charts are being used for all IRMS related charts

  • Stability

  • Linearity

  • Scans

  • Acquisitions

For more information about the IRMS features in lyticOS Software Suite, visit our website here.

3D Peak Display

The comparison view has been completely redesigned to allow for more granular comparison between samples.

When multiple tasks are added to the comparison view a "primary" task is highlighted in bold and other samples are faded. This primary task is synchronised with the selected / active task in the batch grid.

The original stacked chart comparison view has been completely replaced with a new 3D overlay concept. It has been designed so that it is the exact same experience of working with the chart in the normal view as it is in the comparison view. So, all the new chart features that are supported in the main data display, are also supported within the comparison view and synchronized appropriately.

Within a GC batch, when multiple samples have been added to the comparison view, you can press CTRL and double click on a peak to select that same peak (as defined by the Peak Map) to highlight in all the samples within the comparison view.

Watch the video demonstrating 3D Peak Display functionality here.

Data Viewer

With the launch of lyticOS 5.0, we are also making available a free Data Viewer.

https://links.elementar.com/data-viewer

The Data Viewer can be used to view any “lyticOS Archive File” (*.larc) that has been exported from the lyticOS 5.0 software.

The Data Viewer allows you to look beyond the limitations of statically generated excel or pdf reports, and drill into the data and results at a level of detail previously only available to license owners.

Fully interact with charts and show or hide additional column results.

Using the free data viewer, you will not be able to edit any processing parameters or change the way that results are being calculated

Watch the video showing how to download and use the lyticOS Data Viewer here.

LIMS Export

It has always been possible to import information into a task list from a file that has been produced by LIMS. We have now extended this functionality to allow for fields from the task list to be exported to a file (to be imported to a LIMS system).

The file format can be formatted in many ways, including:

  • Select which columns to include

  • Optionally include column headers

  • Custom column headers

  • Apply a formula to a field value

  • The LIMS functionality has now been extended to

  • Custom directory path to save files (including dynamically substituted placeholders)

  • Multiple file formats are supported (Excel, Text, CSV)

  • Options to overwrite or append to a file

  • For Text and CSV file formats, additional file format options are available

    • Culture

    • New Line Char

    • Quotation Behaviour

    • Quotation Char

    • Separator Char

    • Encoding

Additionally, it is also possible to enable an automatic export to LIMS files. LIMS profiles can be configured with the above settings and invoked either when each task completes or when the whole task list completes.

Automatic Archive Export

It is now possible to automatically export tasks to an archive file when tasks complete of when the whole task list is completed.

You can specify the target directory (including dynamically substituted placeholders) for the new archive file.

You can also specify a file name format (including dynamically substituted placeholders).

General Fixes and Improvements

As usual with any new release, we have made numerous improvements to the software generally, including but not limited to:

  • New major update notification bar on the home screen

  • Fixed freezing issues

  • Fixed installer problems

  • Performance improvements

  • Bug Fixes

Secure Portal

The Secure Portal is a brand-new system which allows users to access their own licenses, downloads and software upgrade status.

https://secure.elementar.com