Calibration curves for grouped compounds

Cole,

You can use timed groups to sum the area of peaks and calibrate against that sum as if it was one peak. Please note with timed groups the range does not need to be contiguous, you can have multiple ranges in the group. You can also use area sum as a timed integration event to force adjacent peaks to be summed together. CDS 2.5 cannot used timed groups as a curve reference but that is all later versions added.  

Marty Adams

Thanks Martin. Is there an easy way to check if a compound is in a timed group? With other groups, they will say what group they are in in the "Compound_GroupName" field, but this does not appear to be the case for timed groups

Hello,

It is not the same as named groups so the Compound_GroupName does not work. If you have peaks in a timed group, they end up being named with the timed group name if they are unknowns. If they are named, you kind of end up with a second duplicate peak that is that same peak as a member of the timed group. You can setup the tables to be able to see both versions or remove the duplicate peaks. There are tables in the snippets list that are designed to display summed peaks that can be used as well. You could use a table like that and include the count of peaks to check the range was including the peaks of interest. 

Marty

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Alright, sounds like I will have to come up with something. The problem is more about filtering out the individual peaks from other tables since they will be assessed in the group table. I have a few ideas already so don't worry about it

Hello,

If that is what you need, place a hidden field at the top of the report, grouped with itself, and repeated on RT. in the field, make the value =If(Count(Peak_RetentionTime)>1,1,0) and then store the value as a variable keyed on Peak_RetentionTime. If this is for a summary report, I would repeat the field again by injection ID. You can then use that flag in tables to allow only peaks that do not have a duplicate(grouped) peak. The 2 tables below are identical except the first table has a filter for if the stored value = 0. You can change the logic of the flag as you see fit. 

Marty Adams

Thanks, I'll use a modified version of this