Data handling for fast chromatography--qualitative analysis: the November 2001 'GC Connections' installment addressed requirements and potential problems associated with the acquisition of fast chromatography peaks by the detector and data recording system. This month's installment continues that topic and examines qualitative data analysis after chromatograms are acquired. (GC Connections)

Chromatographers today rely upon computerized data-handling systems to record and analyze chromatograms. The ubiquitous PC-based data systems used today have changed completely the ways in which chromatographers record and reduce [...]