Management of Combinatorially Acquired Multi-dimensional Data through Object-Oriented Virtual Sample Library

摘要

Combinaiorial methods bring about plentiful data not only in size but also in dimension. To handle multi-dimensional data easily, a virtual container of combinatorially acquired data is developed which is called "virtual sample libraries" (VSL). VSL stores the. data hierarchically in the order of (1) coordinates in the sample library, (2) names of the measurements performed, and (3) data obtained from each measurement. Thus, the loads for analysis and visualization of multi-dimensional data are reduced because the stored data can be accessed intuitively, that is, just by tracing the hierarchy structure. This framework is easily constructed by the aid of object-oriented script language which is good at describing complicated data structure. Visualization of combinatorially acquired 7-dimensional data is demonstrated.