1. A computer-implemented method for processing data from a chemical experiment on a library of materials, the method comprising: receiving data from a chemical experiment on a library of materials having a plurality of members; and generating a representation of the chemical experiment, the representation including data defining an experiment object having a plurality of properties derived from the chemical experiment, the experiment object being associated with the library of materials, the representation also including data defining one or more element objects, each element object being associated with one or more members of the library of materials.