Patent ID: 7653607

Claim:
A computer-implemented system for carrying out a set of experiments, comprising: a computer-implemented experiment design tool for generating at a first location an experiment request for execution of a set of experiments to be performed on a library of materials at a second location, the library of materials having a plurality of members, the first location being remote from the second location, the experiment request defining one or more starting materials to be used in the set of experiments, one or more distribution schemes to be used to assign the one or more starting materials to members of the library of materials, and one or more processing conditions to be applied to members of the library of materials, such that each of a plurality of the library members is defined by a unique combination of starting materials and/or process conditions; interface means for communicating the experiment request from the first location to the second location; a research engine at the second location, the research engine being operable to perform the set of experiments by distributing the starting materials to members of the library of materials according to the distribution scheme, applying the processing conditions to members of the library of materials according to the experiment request, and applying one or more specified screening methods to the members of the library of materials to generate experimental results; and a computer-implemented data viewer tool configured to provide access to the experimental results at the first location.