METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLANNING, PERFORMING, AND ASSESSING HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING OF MULTICOMPONENT CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS AND SOLID FORMS OF COMPOUNDS

• Main Authors: LEVINSON, DOUGLAS, A, CHIN, DONOVAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.03.2007
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LIBRARIES, e.g. CHEMICAL LIBRARIES, IN SILICOLIBRARIES; MEASURING; METALLURGY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; TESTING; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

The present application is directed to the use of computerized date processing to plan, perform, and assess the results of high-throughput screening of multicomponent chemical compositions and solid forms of compounds. Systems utilized include databases of molecular descriptors and related compounds and their properties as determined empirically and through simulation, along with multidimensional visualization tools. Methods include methods for determining chemical compositions by performing steps including selecting a plurality of combinations of values of experimental parameters that can be varied by an automated experiment apparatus, determining a set of experimental results, and determining a second plurality of combinations of values based on the set of experimental results. Additional methods include selecting values of parameters that produce a composition, the values being relatively far from areas of rapid change or boundaries between solid forms.