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Data analysis
Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to assay workflows and statistical process control.
Dose-Response Analysis Package
The Dose-Response Analysis Package provides various biostatistical methods for immunoassays, ELISA, and more. It supports you in investigating equivalence for calibration curves, provides enhanced data processing, and options for subgroup analysis.
Equivalence margin development
Use Equivalence margin development documents to develop and verify test systems based on historic assays and apply these test systems in current runs of dose response assays.
Concepts for efficient setup
Find details on the concepts that support you when setting up and working with Equivalence margin development documents.
Visualization
Visualization lets you get a better understanding of the behavior of the test strategies created through equivalence margin development.

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Data analysis
Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to assay workflows and statistical process control.
- Biological Assay Package
  Use the Biological Assay Package for potency analysis of biological assays. The add-on comes equipped with a highly flexible test system to qualify your assay. You can perform combination calculations to obtain a reportable value from independent assay runs and use historic assay data to develop equivalence margins.
- bioMérieux Endotoxin Detection Assay Package
  Use the bioMérieux Endotoxin Detection Assay Package add-on to perform endotoxin testing based on recombinant factor C (rFC), a synthetic alternative to naturally sourced reagents derived from horseshoe crabs, as offered by the bioMérieux company.
- Control Chart Package
  The Control Chart Package allows sophisticated statistical process control (for example, by plotting Shewhart I-Charts as recommended in the USP <1010>). It provides visualization options for intervals, subcharts and sidecharts, and allows you to define colors by a secondary characteristic. You can also define rules based on events and time frames.
- Dichotomous Assay Package
  Use the Dichotomous Assay Package to analyze biological assays based on quantal (binary) responses by fitting probit or logit models to estimate the potency of your samples.
- Dose-Response Analysis Package
  The Dose-Response Analysis Package provides various biostatistical methods for immunoassays, ELISA, and more. It supports you in investigating equivalence for calibration curves, provides enhanced data processing, and options for subgroup analysis.
  - Installation
    Find details on the system requirements for the Dose-Response Analysis Package add-on and the steps to install the add-on in your environment.
  - Dose-response analysis
    Use Dose-response analysis documents to perform curve comparisons and create calibration curves.
  - Equivalence margin development
    Use Equivalence margin development documents to develop and verify test systems based on historic assays and apply these test systems in current runs of dose response assays.
    - Concepts for efficient setup
      Find details on the concepts that support you when setting up and working with Equivalence margin development documents.
      - Development and verification assays
        Assign development and verification functions to historic assays to support the creation and validation of equivalence margins in your test system.
      - Margin development
        Select the set of tests you want to use to develop margins.
      - Test strategies
        Select the parameters and properties you want to use for system and sample suitability testing.
      - Visualization
        Visualization lets you get a better understanding of the behavior of the test strategies created through equivalence margin development.
    - Work with Equivalence margin development documents
      Learn how to set up Equivalence margin development documents step by step. The tasks guide you through each part of the document setup and show you how to efficiently work with core concepts.
  - Test system definition
    Use Test system definition documents to define a collection of suitability tests and corresponding margins for dose response assays.
  - Reference information
    Find reference information on the document types of the Dose-Response Analysis Package add-on.
- Microbial Assays for Antibiotics Package
  The Microbial Assays for Antibiotics Package for PLA 3.0 is your software for assessing the potency of antibiotics. This add-on supports various methods, that is, cylinder-plate, turbidimetric, and combination of microbial assays. It enables you to closely follow the guidelines laid out in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP <81>) and the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP 4.02).
- Supporting add-ons
  Find details on add-ons that support and supplement data analysis add-ons.
Data import
Use data acquisition and data import add-ons to import external response values and observation data into PLA 3.0 for further processing and evaluation.
Installation
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Licensing
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Administration
Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
Regulatory compliance
PLA 3.0 supports you in achieving compliance with regulations such as ISPE GAMP^® 5 and 21 CFR Part 11. It also provides options to validate PLA 3.0 in your environment.
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Visualization

Visualization lets you get a better understanding of the behavior of the test strategies created through equivalence margin development.

About visualization

Visualization during equivalence margin development supports you in gaining a better understanding of your test strategy behavior and whether you need to make adjustments before applying it in production assays. For a given test system, the tool creates random assays that pass the test system, providing a visual confirmation of the test strategy behavior.

Use visualization to find curves that pass your test system. If there are curves that pass your test system that look like they should not, this can be an indicator that your test system is not strict enough. On the other hand, if all passing curves look similar, you can infer that you need to relax your test system if you would like to allow for more varied assays.

Important: 'Assay' in this case refers to curves defined by their parameters. The visualization does not simulate measurements. Therefore, tests that rely on individual observations in addition to curve parameters are not considered for visualization.

Work with visualization

For details on how to set up visualization, see the Set up visualization topic.