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AcquiLAB manual

How to use every part of AcquiLAB: analysing instrument data, making figures, choosing the next experiment with Bayesian optimization, running simulations, keeping references, writing documents, and working with the Assistant or your own AI agent.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1Getting startedProjects and workspaces, the sidebar, the project overview, Data and what AcquiLAB asks before it runs anything.
  2. Chapter 2AnalyzeFrom an instrument file to a result with units and uncertainties: techniques, methods, options and what to do when a run fails.
  3. Chapter 3Plot Studio and Figure StudioThe workbook and graph editor for publication figures, multi-panel figures and vector export.
  4. Chapter 4Optimize (Bayesian optimization)How Bayesian optimization chooses the next experiment, the engines and acquisition functions, and how to run, check and stop a campaign.
  5. Chapter 5SimulateReady-made physics and chemistry models, models you write as rate equations or formulas, fitting to data and simulation in the BO loop.
  6. Chapter 6Library and Zotero syncOne personal reference library across your projects: adding, organising, verifying, de-duplicating and exporting references, and two-way Zotero sync.
  7. Chapter 7Notebook and DocumentsThe project's running record, documents built from it, citations of papers and results, the number check and exports to Word and LaTeX.
  8. Chapter 8Assistant, MCP connector and connected agentsThe project-aware Assistant, connecting your own AI agent through the MCP connector, the permissions and run limits you give it, and the tools it can call.
  9. Chapter 9Plans, runs, credits and settingsPlans and prices, what runs and credits pay for, limits, graph preferences, account settings and the basics of data and privacy.

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