Chromeleon CDS Overview
Get an overview of the software’s intelligent functionality and how this can help streamline your laboratory’s workflows.
Benefits of Chromeleon CDS
Discover why ChromeleonCDS is our gold standard software for cost savings, compliance, and scalability.
Introduction to Chromeleon CDS
Learn how Chromeleon CDS enables immediate access to all instruments, data, and eWorkflows.
Chromeleon is cloud-ready, and supports GLP, GMP, and 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.
Version 7.2.6
Hear the latest features in Chromeleon CDS, Version 7.2.6: New and improved features for Chromatography and MS and Chromeleon XPS Open Access software.
Version 7.2.7
Hear the latest features in Chromeleon CDS, Version 7.2.7: New and updated instrument drivers, improved data processing, reporting tools, and more!
Version 7.2.9
Hear the latest features in Chromeleon CDS, Version 7.2.9: Intact protein deconvolution, improved MS processing performance, instrument control and more!
Chromeleon 7.2 CDS: Getting Immediate Access
Chromeleon CDS intelligent user interface provides access to all instruments, data and eWorkflows, without the need for training.
Chromeleon 7.2 CDS: The Data Category
In the Data Category you have immediate access to all your data, flexibly organized in a structure optimized for your lab.
Quickly Find Commands Chromeleon 7.2 CDS: The Fluid User Interface (Ribbon)
The interactive Ribbon interface helps you quickly find the commands you need to complete a task.
Chromeleon CDS: Recycle Bin
Chromeleon CDS has a Deleted Items folder, also known as Recycle Bin, where users can find and restore items deleted from the Data Vault.
Chromeleon CDS: Data Import
Chromeleon CDS supports the recursive import of many different file types. All these different file types can be imported at the same time, removing the need to do a separate import for each file type.
Chromeleon CDS: Data Export
To facilitate connectivity with other software packages Chromeleon CDS supports the export of many different file types.
Thermo Scientific AppsLab Library of Analytical Applications
AppsLab Library is the only online collection of applications where you can search, view, and download complete methods for execution in the Chromeleon CDS software.
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Chromeleon 7.2 CDS: GC-MS Instrument Control
Control your GC-MS instrument directly through the use of intuitive ePanels.
Chromeleon 7.2 CDS: The Instruments Category
Quickly select and control the instrumentation you need for each analysis. Organize by favorites and search for local devices on your network.
Chromeleon CDS: Gain Instrument Control
During the analysis process control your instruments directly with intuitive ePanels.
Chromeleon CDS: UHPLC Method Speed-Up Wizard
Easily convert HPLC methods to UHPLC to speed up analysis.
Chromeleon CDS: LCMS Instrument Control
Seamlessly integrated control of LC-MS via intuitive ePanels.
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Chromeleon CDS: Instrument Method
Manage setup of instrument control parameters through familiar native user interfaces, seamlessly embedded in the Instrument Method Wizard.
eWorkflow Templates
Easily start your analysis with just a few clicks Easily streamline your analysis processes and start your runs with just a few clicks using eWorkflows.
Create Instrument Method
Use intelligent wizards to create methods based on the configuration of your instruments.
Chromeleon CDS: Ensure Results Quality
Minimize analytical errors using built-in System Suitability Testing with Intelligent Run Control to perform automated actions based on chromatographic results.
See IRC in Action
Integrated Intelligent Run Control can automatically re-inject if a system suitability test fails.
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Sterling: Cobra Wizard
The Cobra wizard quickly guides you to the optimal detection settings for your analysis in a few steps. The processing method is directly updated, ensuring all chromatograms are immediately integrated.
Dynamic Data Processing
View immediate updates to all sequence results. Get instant feedback on your processing changes with Dynamic Data Processing.
Update Retention Times
Manually updating retention times as peaks drift can be time consuming and error-prone. In the Processing Method, all retention times in the component table can be automatically updated in one click.
Quick Integration Setup
Consistently integrate all chromatograms by configuring the initial detection parameters with the Cobra™ wizard.
Create Component Tables
Manually creating component tables, and especially with large numbers of components, can be tedious and error-prone. The component table wizard facilitates table creation and reduces the chances of errors.
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Custom Report Designer
Easily create, modify, and save your own report templates to meet your reporting requirements.
Rapid Report Generation
Utilizing the included reporting template capabilities, a final report can be generated in just two simple steps.
Find Variables
With the Chromeleon CDS flexible Report Designer, you can quickly modify your report template, as well as find, add, and edit report formulas.
Adding Spreadsheet Formulas
In the Report Designer, custom calculations can easily be added to meet your reporting requirements — all with full traceability and without the need for external spreadsheets.
Checking Reports
Report Designer provides a built-in error check for reports, automatically checking every entry in the entire report and providing a simple interface to easily correct any errors.
Monitor Analysis Quality
Laboratory reports, such as control charts, can be time-consuming to manually collate for required data and updates. Using an Injection Query (a simple set of search criteria) combined with Interactive Charts, provides instant feedback on analyses quality.
Custom Formulas
Custom Formulas allow saving user-defined calculations as standard report variables. The formula only needs to be validated once and can then be used anywhere a report parameter can be used.
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Sterling Pharma Solutions Ltd: Compliance and Data Integrity Driven by Chromeleon CDS Designer
Easily create, modify, and save your own report templates to meet your reporting requirements.
Chromeleon CDS: Enabling seamless data flow from lab to enterprise
Utilizing the included reporting template capabilities, a final report can be generated in just two simple steps.
Reassign Instrument License
Sometimes it’s necessary to relocate modules or instruments. With Chromeleon CDS, you can quickly and easily update the license assignment in the Administration Console’s license manager.
Operational Security
The unique XVault™ infrastructure provides Operational Security for your laboratory and prevents data loss ensuring the highest lab uptime possible.
Scheduled Data Archiving
Chromeleon CDS can organize your data by combining the powerful Injection Query with the Scheduler. Your data can be collated and moved to a storage Data Vault, easily organizing your system for optimal performance.
Organizational Units
Organizational Units permit system administrators to share the infrastructure (network, servers) with a centralized point of administration, while each laboratory/site can retain the ability to manage their own users according to requirements.
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Make Compliance a Competitive Advantage with Chromeleon CDS
Simplify meeting the latest demanding regulations. With audit trails tracking all actions, you can defend your data with utmost confidence.
Audit Trail Viewer for Data Integrity and Compliance
The Audit Trail viewer allows users to filter, group and sort in real-time to quickly find events of interest, like deleted actions.
Chromeleon CDS Audit Trail Review - Visual Comparison
Reviewing data audit trails is critical to ensure data integrity. Chromeleon CDS visual comparison makes it fast and easy with clear graphical justification.
Queries for Periodic Data Review
Testing into compliance is a point of emphasis for regulators. Periodic review of data vaults using the powerful Injection Query system can help identify if this is occurring in your lab.
Privileged Actions and Comments Functions
Privileged Actions are any operations that require a password and/or comment to be entered. You can setup Chromeleon CDS to make comments default or free-form.
Manage User Roles
Chromeleon CDS provides comprehensive user management tools in the Administration Console, enabling you to define what users can change and/or access.
Operational Qualification
Typical qualification of chromatography data systems is a time-consuming manual process. The ChromeleonCDS Operational Qualification (OQ) feature is a fully automated routine that qualifies the software in under 7 minutes.
Integrated Audit Trails
Data integrity requires a full history of all changes made. Chromeleon CDS provides a comprehensive set of audit trails, tracking all changes made to the instruments, user databases, and all data objects.
Versioning and Rollback
Chromeleon CDS stores all previous versions of a data object. All changes can easily be viewed and compared, or previous versions restored with the version comparison tool.
Electronic Reports
Electronic Reports provide a pre-submission preview of your final results that can be signed at any time. Once signed, the entire sequence is locked and protected from further changes, ensuring regulatory compliance.
Securing Data
As well as using Electronic Signatures you can also secure data by locking injections, sequences, folders and even Data Vaults, making them read only.
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Overview of the ISQ EC MS Control Panel
Simplify meeting the latest demanding regulations. With audit trails tracking all actions, you can defend your data with utmost confidence.
Visualize MS Data
View organized tables of all MS components that include traces of the quantitation and confirming ions.
MS Library Search
Perform library searches for confirmation and identification of components using any library in NIST format, including custom built libraries.
Channel-Centric Data Viewing
Chromeleon CDS provides comprehensive user management tools in the Administration Console, enabling you to define what users can change and/or access.
Interactive Mass Spectral Plots
With Chromeleon CDS’ flexible user management controls, you can create access groups to restrict access to data and/or instruments to ensure the integrity and security of your data.
Quickly Generate XICs
In Chromeleon CDS, the creation of extracted ion chromatograms is very simple. Either interactively select the masses or mass ranges in the Mass Spectral Plot or manually perform extractions directly from your data.
MS Import Compound Data
With Chromeleon CDS you can quickly create component tables, complete with quantitation and confirmation ion information, by electronically importing information from NIST-based compound databases.
Spectral Library Search in Multiple Libraries
Checking an unknown peak against spectral libraries is often a manual and time-consuming process. With Chromeleon CDS, you can automatically search across multiple spectral libraries.
Library Search Results in Peak Labels
When selecting one or more MS spectral libraries, Chromeleon CDS shows an instant overview of spectral library search results for all peaks in the chromatogram. You can add these results directly to the peak label in the chromatogram for an easier overview.
Combine MS and Other Detector Results
Chromeleon CDS seamlessly combines results of multiple IC, LC, and GC detectors with MS data. This eliminates the need for multiple software packages and coordinates a reliable, unified process.
Export RAW
Chromeleon CDS supports the export of different file types. This can be set up in the report template and used for automatic or manual export of selected data.
Non-targeted MS Processing
Non-targeted MS processing enables differential analysis of highly complex MS data sets. Chromeleon CDS confidently and reproducibly identifies components with statistically significant inter-sample differences in abundance.