Based on this message, maybe you would still need the firmware.
Bill
From: Gareth Morris [mailto:g.a.morris_at_manchester.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:02 AM
To: ammrl_at_ammrl.org
Subject: AMMRL: OpenVnmrJ can run a spectrometer
OpenVnmrJ can be used to run a spectrometer; it has been tested on a
variety of Varian/Agilent systems. At the moment OpenVnmrJ is pretty much
functionally identical to VnmrJ 4.2, but the two will gradually diverge as
bugs are fixed and enhancements added.
OpenVnmrJ can be installed free-standing on a data station, for processing
Varian/Agilent (and other) data.
To run a spectrometer, OpenVnmrJ should be installed over (or preferably
alongside, see (b) below) an Agilent VnmrJ installation.
The warnings are required (a) because the spectrometer console software is
not open source, so to run a spectrometer you need to have the relevant
bits of the original Agilent-supplied software package, and (b) because
Agilent service staff are only trained to deal with Agilent VnmrJ
software.
Hope this helps
Gareth Morris
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From: Ryan McKay <rmckay_at_ualberta.ca <mailto:rmckay_at_ualberta.ca> >
Subject: Re: AMMRL: OpenVnmrJ press release
Date: 13 September 2016 20:18:23 BST
To: Michael Strain <mstrain_at_uoregon.edu <mailto:mstrain_at_uoregon.edu> >
Cc: <ammrl_at_ammrl.org <mailto:ammrl_at_ammrl.org> >
Good afternoon,
I am correct in reading that OpenVNMRJ is not to be used to run a
spectrometer?
http://openvnmrj.org/about/
Specifically:
Spectrometer users, read this
** Do not delete the Agilent supplied VnmrJ on your spectrometer **
* Agilent service requires VnmrJ 4.2
* The spectrometer console software is NOT open sourced
Many thanks,
Ryan
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On Sep 12, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Michael Strain <strain_at_mango.uoregon.edu
<mailto:strain_at_mango.uoregon.edu> > wrote:
PRESS RELEASE
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University of Oregon releases open source version of Agilent Technologies'
NMR/MRI software, enabling continued discoveries in chemistry, molecular
biology, medicine, materials science, imaging.
[12-Sep-2016] - In a move that will benefit the international scientific
community for years to come, the University of Oregon (UO) announced that
it will release an updated version of Agilent Technologies' VnmrJ
software, used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and make the software and its source code
freely available to the international scientific community. The software
is used to operate scientific instrumentation, often with price tags
ranging into millions of dollars, and can also be used for the analysis of
data from these instruments on desktop computers.
"The UO has accepted ownership and custody of the software code as a gift
from Agilent Technologies. The code will be maintained and supported by an
international group of NMR experts for the benefit of the greater NMR and
MRI community," said Michael Strain, a senior research associate and
director of the UO's NMR Spectroscopy Facility. Strain credited UO
Associate Vice President for Innovation Chuck Williams with having the
legal agility to put the agreement in place in a timely manner. The
version to be released by UO is known as OpenVnmrJ.
"We are pleased to make this gift of technology to the University of
Oregon and the NMR community," said Patrick Kaltenbach, President, Life
Sciences and Applied Markets Group, Agilent Technologies. "Open-sourcing
VnmrJ will allow this key research technique in chemistry, molecular
biology, medicine, materials science, imaging, and many other research
disciplines to continue to be used for important discoveries in academic,
government and commercial labs around the world."
For more than 30 years VnmrJ and its antecedents have served as the
proprietary commercial software for operators of Varian and Agilent NMR
spectrometers, and more recently also for Varian and Agilent MRI scanners.
It contains more than 3 million lines of code, and represents nearly 300
person-years of software engineering time. There are over 7000 site
licenses of the commercial version of VnmrJ around the world, with each
site likely to have multiple operators. As a result, there are a very
significant number of people using VnmrJ.
"Agilent's VnmrJ software is a vital tool in research in chemistry,
biology and medicine," said Professor Gareth Morris of University of
Manchester, UK. "Over the years the spectrometers and body scanners it
supports have made major contributions in many branches of science,
including the development of new medicines and new medical imaging
methods. Agilent's gift of the full source code of this important
resource to the magnetic resonance community helps safeguard the future of
many tens of millions of dollars' worth of NMR equipment in industrial and
academic laboratories, and will be widely and warmly welcomed."
In addition to MRI, OpenVnmrJ will be used for NMR spectroscopy. NMR
spectroscopy makes use of the magnetic properties of certain atomic nuclei
to gain detailed information about the structure, dynamics, reaction
state, and chemical environment of molecules. The UO maintains five such
NMR systems in its Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in
Oregon (CAMCOR) shared instrument facility, overseen by Michael Strain, to
support scientists in working in chemistry and many other fields of
research. Chuck Williams, who directs the UO's Innovation Partnership
Services unit, saw the agreement as an important opportunity to support
the larger scientific community:
"Mike and the other research scientists at UO conduct world class research
and provide key industry research services that could have been threatened
if Agilent and the developer community hadn't stepped up to the plate. We
are delighted to be the host for that community and thank Agilent for its
generosity and support."
The OpenVnmrJ software will be made available on GitHub under the Apache
2.0 and GPLv3 open source licenses, allowing anyone to download and
install the OpenVnmrJ programs and source code, as well as to modify and
update the software. While the UO owns the title to OpenVnmrJ, Agilent
retains the rights to VnmrJ 4.2 and previous commercial versions of the
software.
An external advisory body, the VnmrJ Open Source Steering Group (VOSSG),
comprised of leading scientists from the international NMR community as
well as some of the original software developers, will help manage the
release of the software code and oversee its future development by the NMR
community.
"There are very few other instances of an open-source release
of formerly proprietary scientific software products of this magnitude,"
said Strain. "The release of this software will enable NMR labs around the
world to continue to support their Varian/Agilent NMR systems, and will
enable all sorts of future developments in the field that are yet to be
imagined."
For more information on the OpenVnmrJ project, go to:
http://openvnmrj.org/
To download OpenVnmrJ software and source code and software go to:
https://github.com/OpenVnmrJ/OpenVnmrJ/releases
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Michael Strain, PhD
Director, CAMCOR NMR Facility
University of Oregon
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Prof Gareth A Morris FRS
School of Chemistry, University of Manchester
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