Use ArDB to consolidate all your sample results from multiple analytical techniques into a single database
What is ArDB?
ArDB makes it simple to construct, maintain and manage a database of analytical results, no matter which technique generated the result.
With your results organized and recorded alongside associated quality control results and sample metadata, you can manage and interrogate your data easier than ever before.
The powerful capabilities for data visualizations make it simple to discover trends and relationships within your data.
The fully integrated multi-variate analysis statistical tools, allow databases with a high dimensionality of analytical results to be statistically reduced for easier interpretation.
ArDB makes it easier to gain insights into your data.
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- Create and manage your own private databases
- Collaborate by inviting users to access your private databases and manage their permissions
- Manage samples within your databases
- Draft and publishing features
- Auditing, rollback and versioning features
- Powerful visualizations and statistics
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A Better Alternative to Excel Worksheets
Most scientists love a good Excel worksheet, but we’ve all encountered times when a rogue comma or incorrect set of brackets in a formula makes the whole thing fall down.
Strangely, many labs rely on Excel sheets to handle their most precious commodity: analytical data.
Even when all the formulas work correctly (and are locked to avoid accidental editing) Excel has many drawbacks over a purpose-built data handling package.
ArDB has an application wherever you see an Excel sheet whose data needs to be trusted, shared, integrated or stored.
LIMS Alternative
From experience, LIMS packages have a bad reputation, mainly due to the time and cost needed to implement them effectively.
This results in many labs going to the other extreme and keeping all data in Excel sheets.
ArDB is capable of filling the void between the humble Excel sheet and a cumbersome LIMS platform.
Many of the LIMS benefits can be easily integrated for a modest investment.
Contract Labs
Laboratories which perform contract sample analysis handle vast quantities of data as it is essential to their “product”, so it would make sense that they should utilize the most integrated and secure method of collecting and reporting this data. However, it is commonplace for these labs to rely on Excel spreadsheets or in-house custom databases.
With ArDB, results from any manufacturers instruments can be collated into one place and linked to QC results. The data is then protected and stored securely so no loss can occur. This makes audits straightforward so your analysts can concentrate on what they do best.
Quality Control within Manufacturing
Within manufacturing companies, products must be checked prior to release.
The pressure is often on to report results quickly, but failures must be investigated and mistakes can have big consequences.
ArDB can help reduce errors and ease investigations to prevent the analytical lab from being a bottleneck in the manufacturing workflow.
Data Analytics with ArDB
On-board multi-variate analysis
ArDB is able to combine all your analytical results from any type of instrumentation into a single database. With such complex multi-dimensional datasets finding patterns and trends in your data can be challenging.
ArDB has built in support for multi-variate analysis, making it just a few clicks away. Use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) or Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to categorize, score and plot your results easily.
Using the resulting PCA / LDA components, ArDB makes it straight forward to compare any unknown samples against your database of authentic samples.
Discover geographic trends in your results
Samples analyzed in the lab may be inherently related to their geopgraphic origin. Being able to easily look for temporal and spatial trends in your data can be essential. ArDB offers powerful Geographical Information System (GIS) features that make this simple.
Once your results are plotted onto a map, data can be quickly aggregated to deliver average values for a given sampling site, or with the Smart Date functionality you can discover temporal trends over any time scale.
Visualize your data in 3-dimensions
With your results organized in ArDB, it is incredibly simple to begin visualizing your data.
Multiple charts can be plotted instantly and added to the Report page making it simple to see data trends as more samples are submitted to the database.
As well as 2-dimensional plots, ArDB is able to generate 3-dimensional plots which can be rotated, zoomed and panned to make interrogation even simpler, bringing unique perspectives to muti-variate plots.
Compare unknown sample results with your database
After generating your comprehensive database of authentic samples, you may want to compare unknown or suspicious samples against them.
ArDB allows analytical results from unknown samples to be easily compared against your known database.
Using the in-built Principal Component Analysis (PCA) or Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) functionality, unknown samples can be visually compared as well as categorized with an associated score to provide a statistical evaluation.
Extend your analytics beyond ArDB
ArDB provides powerful management and analysis tools tools for your analytical results as standard.
Take advantage of the many publicly available R packages and include them in your own customized R scripts that can be executed directly from ArDB to gain extra insights into your data.
Use your favourite statistical packages such as SPSS, Python and Matlab alongside ArDB, by taking your data offline using straight-forward filtering, grouping and sorting featured that get you the data you need faster.
Features
Visualize
Interrogating large databases can be complex and time-consuming. ArDB allows you to quickly group, filter and organize your analytical results, making it simple and fast to visualize your data on 2D Charts, 3D charts, and geographical maps (GIS).
Use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) or Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) multivariate statistical techniques to produce informative visualizations that help classify your results.
Statistics
ArDB makes challenging statistical analysis simple, with its intuitive offering of statistical tools (PCA, LDA, etc.).
ArDB supports the running of custom R scripts that extend its default statistical tools offering, allowing you to truly examine your analytical results in any way you choose.
Use in-built filtering and grouping to export your data as XLSX files for use in third-party numerical packages such as Excel or SPSS.
Collaborate
Today’s scientific community is truly global, and collaboration is essential for successful research.
ArDB utilizes a client-server architecture giving remote access to all collaborators whilst maintaining data integrity.
Quality Control
ArDB provides an easy to use mechanism for enabling a full set of Quality Control Statistics calculations and visualizations.
Integration with Elementar Instruments
ArDB directly integrates into your workflow when generating results using Elementar instruments.
Whether performing stable isotope ratio measurements (IRMS) or elemental composition analysis (EA), the calibrated results are directly published to ArDB allowing you to easily build and maintain your analytical results database.
Data Security & Trust
ArDB utilizes a robust security model ensuring that your data is securely stored and transmitted.
Data is only accessible by users with the correct credentials and permissions.
Centralize
ArDB provides a central database for all your analytical results.
Bringing together sample results from any kind of analytical technique (IRMS, ICP-MS, TIMS, etc.) allows you to examine your sample in its entirety using a single solution.