Chronos Plugins
CHRONOS Software Plugins
CHRONOS supports a comprehensive list of plugin interfaces which allows implementation of additional custom features.
A Chronos plugin is a .NET assembly containing classes which implements one or several of these interfaces. Currently you can use this plugin model to write:
- A custom device driver module to communicate with an external device that is not supported by Chronos out of the box.
- A toolbox control for manual or maintenance operations with such a driver module.
- Tasks that work with or without a driver module and are integrated into the Chronos method editor and scheduled just like the built-in tasks.
- Tasks that inspect properties of other tasks within the same job.
- Modules that can manipulate and trigger the execution of sample lists.
- Acquisition services for supporting additional Chromatography Data Systems.
Available Plugins
This is a growing - but never complete - list of available Chronos Plugins. If you like to use any of them, please contact us for further information.
Free Task Plugins
- AdvancedToolkit
Miscellaneous tasks for advanced special case methods:- Pinboard (custom list of properties which can be populated using complex expressions, then niceley referenced from other tasks)
- CheckTrayOccupancy (check if all positions of a tray are considered free at the time of execution, to allow switching off an agitator like tray)
- ReadFromDatabase/WriteToDatabase (use SQL databases)
- AlphaVial
Convert MTP index number to A1,B2 indexing style, we thank the Trajan company to make this public available - Assert
Check for user defined preconditions during the sample list validation phase - CreateSchedule
A Task that creates a new schedule from a sample list file. Useful to generate barcode and LIMS database controlled sample lists - DetectVial
Checks if a single vial or which vial range is available - StandbyMethod
Runs a given method at the end of a schedule - WaitForMultipleStartSignals
Waits for occurance of one of multiple input signals with timeout.
Device Driver Plugins
Typically these plugins are commercially available
- Abbemat
Control of refractometers by Anton Paar - Bandelin Digitec RC
Control plugin for an ultrasonic bath by Bandelin Electronic - CEM Microwave
Control of a microwave device by CEM - Chronect HPLC
Control of some Knauer HPLC pumps - Chronect LC/GC
Control of the LC/GC interface by AS - Chronect Symbiosis
Control of µSPE related Spark devices - Chronect VLP
Controls a vial label printer (Scinomix brand) - GenericSerialDevice
Simple serial I/O, for control of devices with a primitive protocol - MTBalance & MTQuantos
Controls Mettler Toledo balances inclusive Quantos powder dosage system - Prolab
Controls Prolab centrifuges, shakers and heaters - ZLP Plugin
Sends customizable barcode labels to a Zebra ZPL based label printer
Sample List Generators
Typically these plugins are commercially available
- BatchSlave
Checks a folder for incoming files specifying samples to process - EBIS
Read analysis results from several data systems and react to them - Inject Schedule
Append new samples to the running sample schedule - LC Mulitplex Sequence Generator
Convenient Sequence generator for LC Multiplex injection solutions - MCDP Sequence Generator
Generate MCPD calibration sequences based on stem solution concentrations and desired target concentration
Miscellaneous
Typically these plugins are commercially available
- Axel Semrau Proteomics Modules
Hardware options and CHRONOS methods for tryptic digestion, both in-gel or in-solution - MockPlugin
A demo plugin showing at least one example for most CHRONOS plugin interfaces. [see documentation]
