1. Sirius™ version 6.0
Sirius™ is a software package for multivariate data analysis and experimental design.
Application areas:
Spectral analysis and calibration
Industrial process analysis and optimisation
Quality control
Marketing and insurance analysis

2. Sirius™ New Features
Full 32 bit application , Windows95 and NT 3.51 or higher
Larger matrices, improved speed
New interface, featuring Windows95 like interface
New import features, Excel,Lotus. Matlab, JCAMP, EChip
Improved spreadsheet editor for raw data, transformed data and subset editing
New graphics including 3D
New graphical editor
New Experimental Design package
continuing….

3. Sirius™ New Features
New reporting facility including easy transfer to other Windows application
Improved pre-processing facilities
New documentation:
Sirius User Guide
Sirius Reference Guide
Sirius Tutorials, 8 tutorials covering the major areas of MDA
New Help system

4. Sirius™ 6.0 - Methods PCA - Principal Component Analysis
PLS Partial Least Squares Regression
PCR Principal Component Regression
SIMCA - Soft Independent Modeling of Class Analogies
MOP Marker Object Projections
MVP Marker Variable Projections

5. Sirius™ 6.0 - Experimental Design
Fully integrated with all other parts of the application
Methods
Fractional,
Full factorial
Central Composite Designs.

6. Sirius™ 6.0 - Pre-Processing
Standard Transform Options
Special Transform Options
Roots
Logarithmic
Block normalising
Normalising using internal standard
Log-centering
Absorbance to reflectance
Absorbance to Kubelka-Munck
Reflectance to Absorbance
Multiplicative Scatter Correction
Savitzky-Golay differentiation

7. Sirius™ 6.0 - Scaling Standardising
Division by standard deviation + constant
Block standardising
Division by mean
Division by mean + constant
Set your own weights

8. Sirius™ 6.0 - Editor Spreadsheet editor for manipulation of data
Raw data
Transformed data
Subset
Pre-inspection of dataset/subset
Univariate statistics
PCA
Correlation analysis
Graphics, bivariate, normal plot, histogram, dendrogram and more

9. Sirius™ 6.0 - Graphics 2D raw/transformed data 3D raw(transformed data
Score and loading plot
Biplot
Score dendrogram
Score vs. objects
Loadings vs. variables
Residuals
Covariance graphs
Predicted vs. measured response
Regression coefficients
Target coefficients
Contour plot

10. Sirius™ 6.0 - Software Interaction
ASCII
Excel (XLS)
Lotus (WKx)
JCAMP
MATLAB
LTIndusties
Echip

11. Sirius™ 6.0 - Requirements
Personal computer(486SX or higher) running
Windows 95 or Windows NT or higher
16 MB of memory (32MB recommended)
8 MB of free hard-disk space required

12. SirEnviron™ version 1.0 An integrated Application for
Environmental Studies.
Focus:
Monitoring
Survey design
Connecting Biology and Chemistry

13. SirEnviron™ version 1.0 Visual interface CDI index Windows95 and NT
User-friendly, using nomenclature like stations, species ..
Inspecting dataset
Defining reference set
Graphics, including contour plot
Windows95 and NT
CDI index

14. SirEnviron™ version 1.0 Includes existing methods like:
Various univariate indexes
Shannon-Wiener - Diversity
Peilous’s J - Evenness
Hurlbert ES(100) - Deversity
Dendrogram
Bray-Curtis and Eucledan
Non-metric Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS)

15. SirEnviron™ version 1.0 Includes new methods like:
PCA, CA, SIMCA, Score Dendrogram.
SIMCA - Community Disturbance Index (CDI)
Connecting Biology and Chemistry using PLS