The present invention relates to a method for the determination of chromatography conditions for the separation of a biomolecule from a liquid sample, which method comprises selecting a number of experiments using design of experiments (DoE); performing said experiments with in-line conditioning of orthogonal quality measures; and based on the results from the experiments, determining efficient chromatography conditions for said biomolecule.The invention also relates to a system for performing the method as well as a computer program and an instrument comprising such a computer program.