{"id":4535,"date":"2019-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thermofisher.com\/blog\/analyteguru\/method-transfer-is-not-easy\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:19:38","slug":"method-transfer-is-not-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thermofisher.com\/blog\/analyteguru\/method-transfer-is-not-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Method Transfer Is Not Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"My wife and I thought we had parenting sorted. But the methods that worked on our first child did not transfer particularly smoothly to our second. With different personalities, different environments, and (of course) the impact of there now being two children around, we clearly needed to adapt our techniques.Transferring methods from one HPLC system to another presents similar challenges: the list of variables that need to be accounted for is long. However, just as the world would be a very odd place if we simply cloned our first child when we wanted a second, so we shouldn\u2019t necessarily just clone our previous HPLC purchase.<\/p>\n

The good news for lab professionals (though unfortunately not for parents) is that there are some instruments that allow you to precisely tune your instrument so that it will respond to your methods in the same way as your old systems. To give just one example, only the Thermo Scientific Vanquish<\/a> series supports both forced air and still air column thermostatting, to enable method transfer from Waters\u00ae Acquity\u00ae (still air), Agilent 1100\/1200 (still air), or Waters Alliance (forced air) HPLC systems.<\/p>\n

There are also a number of other resources to help you:<\/p>\n