The GC Project Wizard guides users through the steps of creating and setting up a project. To start the New Project Wizard, select "File -> New Project Wizard". The Project Wizard maybe cancelled at any time. Each step is optional depending how the user would like to set up the the project. To cancel the creation of the project just click "Cancel" at any step in the wizard. Cancelling will delete everything that is created in each step as well as the project folder. The user can click "Finish" at any time and everything that has been created will be saved to the newly created project.
Each of these steps is described below. All changes at each step are applied immediately to the project once the user clicks "Next".
Step 1: Creating a New Project
Enter a name and select the appropriate path for the project and click "Next". Figure 1 shows the dialog.
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| Figure 1: Creating a new project |
To create a table of vial records, click the "Edit" button, shown in Figure 2 to start editing the table.
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| Figure 2: Create a table of vial records |
Vials can be created individually or multiple vials at one time. The "New Vial" button can be used to create a single vial. To create multiple vials simultaneously, click the "Add Multiple Vials" button and fill in the fields shown in Figure 3.
Prefix - prefix for the name of the vial(s) to be
created
Start - starting number for the name of the
first vial created
Count - the number of vials to be created
Date - date the vial is created
Notes - notes for each vial
Author
- creator of the vial record(s)
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| Figure 3: Adding Multiple Vials |
The "Next Vial" button can be used to create a vial automatically based on the currently selected vial. For example, if SMP01 is selected, the new vial will be named SMP02 with all other information (excluding the Composition Table) the same as SMP01. Use the drop down combo boxes in the "Composition Table" column to select the appropriate Composition Table for a vial as shown in Figure 4. Chemical constituents and amounts are read (in CSV format) from the Composition Table file.
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| Figure 4: Browsing for a Composition Table located outside of the project. |
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| Figure 5: Complete list of selected Composition Table files |
Once done, click "Apply Changes" to save the newly created vials with the corresponding Composition Table data. Figure 6 shows the completed table of vial records.
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| Figure 6: A complete table of vial records |
Step 3: Create Sequence Tables
This step may be skipped if the user would like to manually associate the chromatographic data files with vials.
The user has the option to create a new Sequence Table or import an existing Sequence Table. To create a new Sequence Table, select the "Create Table" button which will bring up the dialog for providing the table information as shown in Figure 8. An existing Sequence Table can also be imported by clicking on the "Import Table" buttton.
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| Figure 7: Create/Import/Edit Sequence Tables |
Provide the following information for the new Sequence Table.
Prefix - name of the Sequence Table
Date - creation date
Notes - notes
about the table
Author - creator of the Sequence
Table
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| Figure 8: Create Sequence Table dialog. |
Several editing operations can be performed on Sequence Tables:
Figure 9 shows an example of a finished Sequence Table.
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| Figure 9: Editing a Sequence Table |
Once finished, click the "Done" button. The Sequence Table is created, as shown in Figure 10. To make changes to an existing Sequence Table, select the Sequence Table and click the "Edit Table" button.
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| Figure 10: Finished Sequence Tables |
Step 4: Import Chromatographic Data Files
Run data files (i.e., raw chromatographic data) are imported by clicking the "Import..." button. The files can either be copied physically into the project's runs folder or linked. Figure 11 shows the list of imported files.
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| Figure 11: Importing run data files |
This step is skipped if there is already a sequence table created. The project will use the Run-Vial association provided in the sequence table.
Run data files that have been imported can be manually associated with the created Vials. To do this select the Vial in the "Vials" list and select the corresponding run data file in the "Unassociated Runs" list and click the "Associate" button to associate the two. One Vial can be associated with multiple run data files. Once the run data file has been associated, it is removed from the list and cannot be associated again. To un-associated, select the association desired and click on the "Un-Associated" button. An example is shown in Figure 12. Figure 13 shows the list of Associated Runs.
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| Figure 12: Associating run data files with Vials |
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| Figure 13: List of Associated Runs |
This step is skipped if there is already a sequence table created.
Existing images can be imported and renamed based on the Run-Vial associaton. Figure 14 shows a list of associated Run-Vial and the images that have been selected to be imported and renamed. Once ready, click on the "Import & Rename" button. The project tree will now show the list of images that have been imported and renamed under the corresponding Run-Vial association as shown in Figure 15.
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| Figure 14: Importing images for renaming and associating with run data files |
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Figure 15: A list of renamed Images under the Batches node in the Project Tree |
Processing files, such as Calibration Table files, templates (bt), Configuration files (cfg), and Colormap Function files (cf), are used to process data, e.g., in Process Runs and Auto Process. To import processing files, click the "Import..." button. Figure 16 shows the list of imported processing files.
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| Figure 16: Importing processing files |
Step 8: Process Runs
If a sequence table was created, then this step will perform Auto Process on the existing sequence table(s) as shown in Figure 17.
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| Figure 17: Auto Process |
Clicking the Auto Process button will bring up the Auto Process proceedure shown in Figure 18. Set the desired options and automated actions for processing, then click the "Start" button to begin Auto Process for the run data files in the selected sequence table. Refer to Project Management's Auto Process for more information on how to perform Auto Process. Figure 19 shows a sample Auto Process log.
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| Figure 18: Auto Process with Sequence Table |
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| Figure 19: Auto Process log |
If there is no sequence table, the Associated Runs can now be processed through Process Runs as shown in Figure 20.
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| Figure 20: Process Runs |
To Process Runs click on the "Process Runs" button shown in Figure 20. Select the associated images from the "Available" list and move it over to the "Selected" list for processing as shown in Figure 21. Select the desired options for processing and click the "OK" button to start the process. Refer to Project Management's Process Runs for a detailed description on how to use the Process Runs.
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| Figure 21: Processing Runs |
To create a Batch with the processed image(s), click the "Add Batch" button, shown in Figure 22.
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| Figure 22: Create Batch |
Figure 23 shows the dialog for creating a Batch. To include images in the batch, select them in the "Available" list and click the ">" button. Provide desired Batch metadata, then click "OK".
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| Figure 23: Create Batch dialog |
Step 10: Calibration Table
To create a Calibration Tables, select an existing Batch and click the "Save Calibration Table" button as shown on Figure 24 . The dialog for specifying the file name for saving the Calibration Table is shown in Figure 25.
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| Figure 24: Save Calibration Table from a Batch |
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| Figure 25: Specify a file name to save the Calibration Table |
Once done click "Finish".
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