Patent ID: 7426442

Claim:
A system comprising: a microfluidic device on which a sample is subjected to a chromatographic separation process; a microfluidic instrument comprising a detection system that detects results of the chromatographic separation process; and a computer system that receives chromatographic separation data corresponding to the results from the microfluidic instrument, wherein the computer system comprises a processor, and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor that stores a computer program that presents the chromatographic separation data from the sample as a series of bands; wherein the computer presents a first set of bands from chromatographic separation data from a first sample adjacent to a second set of bands from chromatographic separation data from a second sample; and wherein the computer program also identifies a band in the first set of bands that corresponds to a marker in the first sample, identifies a band in the second set of bands that corresponds to the same marker in the second sample, and aligns the bands when presenting the two sets of bands adjacent to each other.