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The composite envelope is then plotted over the envelope of each individual peak. It is seen that the actual retention difference, if taken from the maxima of the envelope, will give a value of less than 80% of the true retention difference. Furthermore as the peaks become closer this error increases rapidly. Unfortunately, this type of error is not normally taken into account by most data processing software. It follows that, if such data was used for solute identification, or column design, the results can be grossly in error. 

The conclusions illustrated in Table 17.1 are (1) for a given order, n, the ratio increases as /a increases, and (2) for a given /A, the ratio increases as order increases. In any case, for normal kinetics, ST > Vpp, since the CSTR operates entirely at the lowest value of CA, the exit value. (Levenspiel, 1972, p. 332, gives a more detailed graphical comparison for five values of n. This can also be obtained from the E-Z Solve software.)... 

The above algorithm works well for pure compounds and simple mixtures, but it becomes increasingly difficult to assign all peaks properly when complex mixtures are to be addressed. Additional problems arise from the simultaneous presence of peaks due to protonation and alkali ion attachment etc. Therefore, numerous refined procedures have been developed to cope with these requirements. [102] Modem ESI instrumentation is normally equipped with elaborate software for charge deconvolution. 

Erom the DeCyder software it is possible to find the background-subtracted spot volumes, i.e., for a single spot the lowest lOfh percentile pixel values on the spot boundary have been excluded. Several features of this raw data require calibration and normalization prior to statistical analysis. The volume values are affected by dye-specific system gains and constant additive biases. In figure 3.10 the Cy5 and Cy3 spot volumes of one gel are plotted against each other. It can clearly be seen that the difference between Cy5 and Cy3 spot volumes increases when the spot volumes increase. 

Figure 11 HCS technology permitted the elimination of false positives - Uninteresting compounds are automatically identified and eliminated by the ArrayScan software as opposed to normal uninhibited (A) or inhibited (B) samples. (C) shows a strong cytotoxic compound that killed the cells. (D) shows a compound that caused cell membrane leakage, which reduced the fluorescence intensity of individual cells and increased the fluorescence background of the well. (E) shows a strong fluorescence compound that cannot be washed away and which caused everything in the well to become fluorescent. (F) is an example of a compound that changed the morphology of cells...

A complicating factor was that each combination of MassChrom software had been validated on its own but comparison of data across all combinations of the software had not been imdertaken as this is not normally considered as part of a normal validation stndy. Therefore, to ensure a comprehensive approach to the data migration, an evalnation of data aeqnired by all MassChrom software versions was required to ensure that no regnlatory qnestions remained with the data migration. This approach increased the number of test scripts to 16. 

Statistical tests should only be carefully (directly) applied as acceptance criteria due to the small number of data normally obtained. Sometimes, because of abnormally small variabilities in the analytical series, differences are identified as significant which are of no practical relevance. In addition, when comparing independent methods for the proof of accuracy, different specificities can be expected which add a systematic bias, thus increasing the risk of the aforementioned danger. The analyst must decide whether detected statistical differences are of practical relevance. On the other hand, a large variability can also obscure differences which are not acceptable. If validation software is used, it must be flexible enough to meet these precautions. ... 

Dipole Moment The dipole moment of a molecule is the first moment of the electric charge density expansion. All normal paraffins have a value of zero. Charge separation within the molecule due to electronegativity differences between bonded atoms increases the dipole moment. Computational chemistry software uses the electron density distribution of the optimized molecule to calculate dipole moments. 

To exemplify a molecular similarity method, we employed here a 3D shape-based molecular similarity approach using OpenEye scientific software (OpenEye). A set of 27 molecules (Amoore, 1971) were compared to benzaldehyde (query molecule). The representation used here is based on the volume of each molecule. A conformational ensemble is built for the molecules in the database, whereas the conformation of the query remains fixed (the chemical nature of benzaldehyde does not entail different conformers, though in many cases the conformation of the query molecules might be complex and crucial). After the conformers of each molecule in the data set are built, each one of them is compared with the query and a similarity value is computed. For the particular program employed here (ROCS), the similarity is quantified as a score formed by two terms, one takes into account the chemical nature of the molecules while the other relies on molecular shape, such score is referred to as combo score. The maximum similarity value is 2 which can only be obtained from the comparison of a molecule with itself in the exact same conformation (perfect match). The normalized values (from 0 to 1) for the odor and combo score similarities are compared in the graph shown in Fig. 2.4. As can be observed, as the combo score increases, the odor similarity to benzaldehyde also increases. This correlation shows that part of the odor similarity was captured by the molecular... 

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