Laboratory medicine device requirements

Traditional medicinal chemistry laboratories are beginning to practice parallel synthesis and combinatorial chemistry more often. The development of manual and semiautomated devices, which improve the productivity of the synthesis process, is a reflection of this recent trend. Fully automated systems are expensive, and it is also not always easy to find adequate space in the laboratory to locate such systems. The synthesizers may have counterintuitive software and require a lot of maintenance therefore, it is often necessary to have dedicated users to operate them. Ad hoc usage by everyone in need is difficult due to the complexity of the software and scheduling issues, but the market is beginning to respond by offering smaller, substantially less expensive devices that are easy to use without learning complex software. 

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