Glenn Cudiamat

Strategic Directions International Inc., Los Angeles, California, USA.

Market Profile: Automated DNA Sequencers

Solid-phase extraction (SPE) has been commercially available for nearly 25 years and is still finding new applications. Growth of this technique appears to be largely a function of the vendors' capability to provide specific application support, especially in clinical sciences, pharmaceuticals, toxicology, pesticides and residues analysis.

Market profile: Ion chromatography

Market profile of the analytical and life science instrumentation industry.

Market profile of dissolution testing, a mandatory test for the physical evaluation of drugs that are in a solid dosage form such as capsules, tablets, ointments and creams.

A market profile of Chromatography Data Systems (CDS's) using data extracted and adapted from SDi's recently published Market Analysis and Perspective (MAP) report titled High Performance Liquid Chromatography: Competing Techniques Setting the Bar Higher.

In continuous flow analysis (CFA), a sample is injected into a flowing carrier solution passing rapidly through small-bore tubing. The sample is mixed with a reagent, which reacts with the sample to develop a color and determine the sample concentration. The use of carefully controlled flow conditions ensures that the color development reaction is reproducible, so that the color measurement need not wait until the reaction has gone to completion.

High content screening (HCS) is a high‑throughput method which enables the functional analysis of cells.

With accountability and regulatory compliance being such a large part of the modern laboratory, the necessity for a laboratory information management system (LIMS) cannot be understated.