Chemometrics, what does it stand for?
Chemometrics is a discipline within Chemistry, which allows extracting chemically relevant information via experiment optimization, data processing, calibration, quality control and organisation of the analytical process. The need for chemometrics and its tools can be observed in many branches of chemistry and other life sciences, where data interpretation is of a great interest. In our lab, since several years, the research intrest has been focussed on different aspects of data mining and developing chemometrical tools designed for this purpose.
Welcome to Department of Chemometrics
Department of Chemometrics has been found in 2004 and since then is led by
Prof. Beata Walczak. Chemometric activity at the Institute of Chemistry can
be traced to early nineties.
Nowadays, research at the Department of Chemometrics covers
most of the chemometric and bioinformatic domains.
The main attention is drawn to exploratory aspects of the data analysis, calibration, efficient data compression,
signal processing, classification, analysis of microarray data and biochemical data
(see more details >>).
All of the applied or developed methods are programmed in-house under MATLAB,
offering chemometricians easy implementation of certain routines and rich visualization properties. Please, take your time to
visit section Download to get some of our self-made codes in MATLAB (at the moment there are
DBSCAN, OPTICS and TOMCAT toolbox, containing such routines as PCA, robust PCA, PLS, robust PLS and more).
We are actively involved in chemometrics developement and its popularization at academic and industrial level.
We have also a number of frutifull collaborations with different universities and industrial partners all over the europe (see more for details >>).
News
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Acta Chromatographica (a sponsored open access journal on chromatography) at new publishing house - Akadémiai Kiadó.
Please take a few minutes to enjoy open access and browse freely the journal content (previous issues of Acta Chromatographica (1996-2007) and new ones). - 17th European Symposium on QSAR in "omics" and Systems Biology, Uppsala, Sweden (21-26.09.2008)
- The fourth Polish conference on "Chemometrics - Methods and Applications", Zakopane, Poland (23-26.10.2008)
- Springer has recently introduced the possibility of making one or more articles within each issue available as a 'complimentary open access' article.
This means that the article will be made available for free to anyone at no extra charge to the author.
The selection criteria are high scientific interest and excellent scientific content. Among them you will find one of our publications.
I. Stanimirova, A. Kubik, B. Walczak, J.W. Einax, Discrimination of biofilm samples using pattern recognition techniques, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 390 (2008) 1273-1282 - Among the top 25 papers (the hottest papers) published in Chemometrics and Intelligent
Laboratory Systems there are two of our publications.
Top 25 is a free service which provides lists of most read articles - counted by article downloads on ScienceDirect.
M. Daszykowski, K. Kaczmarek, Y. Vander Heyden, B. Walczak, Robust statistics in data analysis - A review, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 85 (2007) 203-219
M. Daszykowski, S. Serneels, K. Kaczmarek, P. Van Espen, C. Croux, B. Walczak, TOMCAT: A MATLAB toolbox for multivariate calibration techniques Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 85 (2007) 269-277 - CAC 2008 - Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, June 30th- July 4th, 2008, Montpellier, France
- Matlab implementation of the Kennard and Stone algorithm for uniform subset design is available
- Matlab implementations of DBSCAN and OPTICS (density-based clustering approaches) are now available from "download page"
- TOMCAT: a MATLAB toolbox for multivariate calibration techniques
- Prof. Massart's award
A new Matlab toolbox for robust multivariate calibration has been released >> see more about TOMCAT
Reference:
M. Daszykowski, S. Serneels, K. Kaczmarek, P. Van Espen, C. Croux, B. Walczak, TOMCAT: a MATLAB toolbox for multivariate calibration techniques, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 85 (2007) 269-277
The Belgian Chemometrics Society would like to honour professor D.L. Massart, one of the world's leading authorities in the field of chemometrics, by creating an award bearing his name: the D.L. Massart Award in Chemometrics. The bi-annual D.L. Massart Award will be granted to the best PhD thesis defended in the period of two years preceding the ceremony.
Find more information about this prestigious award >>



