Platforms and e-Languages Adapted to HTE

In parallel with database development, any laboratory developing an advanced HTE strategy needs a friendly and efficient way to access and integrate all the data and software apphcations, i.e., a powerful and flexible e-platform to mine, analyze and visuahze all the diverse collected information. 

Some comments should also be made about the e-languages that are used for these data management instruments and the consequences of the level and quality of communication between research groups not belonging to the same laboratory or institution. 

To date, the numerous collaborations between industrial partners or industrial and academic partners in the catalysis domain have generally produced limited, easily manageable amounts of data, which did not require standardised formatting or databases to be exchanged. The development of HTE, however, will have major implications on data management, and urgent considerations on the form of the data and the means of exchanging them are due. 

Most of the above-mentioned instruments still remain non-compatible and a huge effort in e-language standardisation and access protocols need to be carried out International programmes should handle that challenge so as to allow HT laboratories to network and communicate easily. 

This chapter has tried to follow, step-by-step for a given case study, the pros and cons that may be revealed at each stage of the so-called combinatorial loop, using academic hard- and software tools. 

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