ICP Parser

Last updated April 4, 2022

ICP Data Processor

About:

• From Thermo iCAP software
• ICP outputs UTF-16LE encoded text sequence
• Meaningfully compiling these would be useful
• I wrote a hack for this in python once but lost access to the code

Ideas/Plans:

• Honestly, i could probably get it to resemble somewhat valid yaml with a few regular expressions.
• Ideally this would be a web-app
  • D3/React? etc.
• Structuring the parser separately as a typescript package for portablility
  • API docs used to record info about structure of native file
  • Good typescri

Goals:

• Read files (DUH)
• Save As:
  • Otherwise unmodified UTF-8
  • YML and/or JSON
  • relational database file format of some kind?
  • Fully expanded CSV columns
  • Processed CSV (QC checked, appropriately censored)
• QC/QA
  • Check calibration & QC data
  • Control charts:
    • Internal standard and QC standards
  • Sample wavelengths - “Suggest-a-wavelength”
• Blank correction and DL estimation
• Sampling/run summaries