By meeting these specifications, the new AUC platform will encourage the development and commercialization of detectors. Because the difficult task of data acquisition synchronization is taken care of, and the open source communications modules relieve developers from writing software to operate the centrifuge, research laboratories will be able to develop new and specialized detectors. Likewise, it is hoped and anticipated that this “open platform” concept will encourage diverse optical instrument manufacturers to provide commercial detectors for the new AUC.