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UNIFI: The user environment

Ken Eglinton Nordic User Training, September 2013


What is UNIFI?

Single Platform for Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Data

Management and Laboratory Workflow

Intuitive User Interface

Solution for Regulated and Non-Regulated Laboratories

Scalable Open Architecture

Complete Application Solutions


Topics Covered

My Work

Sample submission

Result review

Reporting results

Signing reports

Qualification and maintenance

Other


My Work


My Work


Sample Submission


Sample submission


Result Review


Adaptive review application for wide range of needs


The Review Workflow

What we mean by Workflow

Combines

– Filters

– Injections and Components

– Limits

– Custom Fields

– Screen Layout

– Displayed controls, table columns

User customizable

Allows you to review the data in a

approach that is relevant to you


User interface tools adjusts to roles and capabilities of users

Leverage workflow steps to facilitate the review of your bioanalytical

quantitative experiment results…



…or a biopharmaceutical peptide map…



…or a biopharmaceutical intact protein (reduced)…



…or a metabolite identification experiment with

biotransformation information…



…or a pesticide screen quantification


Reporting Results


Key Feature – Reporting


‘Preview mode’ - Navigating using bookmarks


Finding text in a report


Reusing parts of a report


Reusing parts of a report

Graphic

– Copy = Copies image to clipboard

– Extract = Saves image as a file

(bmp, jpg, gif, tif, png, emf)

Text

– Copy = Copies text to clipboard

– Extract = Saves text as a file (txt,

html, csv, xml)

Export

– Exports the whole report as a pdf


The Report Designer


The Designer – Report Objects

If there is a plot or table in Review, there’s a report object for it!


The Designer

Each object can be…

– Customized w/ object-specific properties

– Tweaked for optimal appearance

o Style & color of fonts, plots & tables

– Filtered & Ordered

– Grouped together


The Designer – Ribbon Bar


Signing Reports


The signature method


Starting the signature sequence


Signing off at level 1


Applying a signature


Signing off at level 2


Applying a signature


The signature page


Working with imported documents


File Import/Conversion

– MassLynx Raw (individually or from

Sample List) to UNIFI Sample Set

– Documents (pdf, Microsoft Office)

to UNIFI reports

File Export/Conversion

– UNIFI Sample Set to MassLynx Raw

– UNIFI reports to pdf documents

Results Export

– Table export

– Report extraction templates

Print from...

Sign and approve electronically

Search capabilities

Data Repository Tools in UNIFI

SOP

Reports

Raw Data Files

Training

References

Papers


What documents are important to your workflow?


Custom fields & formulas


Custom fields and formulas

What are they?

– Sample or component descriptors

o Batch number, label claim, sample submitter, …

– Component or peak calculations

o Wide variety of formulas possible:



Stored in a single pool & accessible from the analysis method



How do I edit formulas?

Can optimize formulas in context with the data within an analysis.


§58.63 Maintenance and calibration of equipment

Managing Qualification

Processes and Documentation


UNIFI Qualification Centre

Perform instrument and software qualifications automatically

– Modules

– Instrument as Systems

– PC’s

Record Maintenance and Qualification Events

Store qualification reports/results electronically

Store Firmware versions as well as ID of modules


Tools for managing change: Unique UNIFI Qualification Center


Change Control Tool- Instruments

Controls


OS Updates

Change Control Tools - Computers



Documentation of Maintenance Activities


Replace Paper Log Books


Replace Paper Log Books



Other


Key Feature – UNIFI Scientific Library

Search Component Information

Produce Candidate Hit List

Records Optimized Instrument

settings

Precursor & Product Masses

Absorbance Wavelengths

Optimum CV & CE

Chromatography Settings

Use to construct New Methods

Record Observed Analytical

Data

Mass, RT, Wavelength,

Drift

Spectra, Chromatograms

Mass Fingerprints

Store data for

Different Techniques

o UV, MS, IR, NMR

Multiple Instruments

Varied System settings

Periodic measurements

Small Molecules, Proteins &

Peptides

Physical Properties

Formula, Structure,

Sequence

Experimental Notes

Associated Articles


Quick Search

Always available & easily

accessible

Searches all folders you have

access to

Includes: raw data, processed

results, reports, methods,

imported documents


For more…

Attend the UNIFI Administration Environment workshop

– Data Folder Hierarchy and Roles/Permissions

– User Accounts

– Security Checks

o Assigned Roles

– Data Folders and Access Grants

o Access Grants Rules/Behaviors

o Stopping Inheritance

– Global Policies and Folder Policies

– Offline Storage Manager


Questions?