Patent ID: 8838397

Claim:
A method of processing chromatography data, comprising: on a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors: receiving chromatography data for a plurality of analyses; displaying a plurality of mini-chromatograms associated with at least a subset of the plurality of analyses, wherein a respective mini-chromatogram generated using chromatography data associated with a particular analysis, and wherein the mini-chromatogram is representative of an associated full-sized chromatogram; wherein the displaying further comprises: in a first display portion of a display window, displaying a table having: one or more first columns, each first column listing one of textual and numerical data associated with a particular analysis in the plurality of analyses, and one or more second columns, each second column displaying, for each row of the table, a respective mini-chromatogram associated with the particular analysis; updating at least one mini-chromatogram upon receiving new measurement data from an ongoing experiment for an associated one of the analyses so that the mini-chromatogram displays live intermediate results associated with the new measurement data for the ongoing experiment; in response to user selection of a first mini-chromatogram, displaying a first full-sized chromatogram generated using the chromatography data used to generate the first mini-chromatogram; and in response to user selection of a second mini-chromatogram, overlaying and simultaneously displaying the first full-sized chromatogram with a second full-sized chromatogram associated with the second mini-chromatogram on a common set of axes.