Revvity Signals Research Suite - What's New

The Signals Research Suite is a complete, integrated data capture, processing & analysis SaaS software for scientific research. Capture, manage, and share experiment data, notes and research findings in a secure and accessible environment built on the foundation of Signals Research Platform.

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    What's New

     

    This version 24.8 release of Signals brings a full release of the integrated summary app in Signals Inventa along with a host of additional improvements. We have also fully released the ability to add monomers to custom HELM libraries. We have extended our Materials and Inventory capabilities including adding a Mixtures Library under a beta release. We have also released other beta capabilities around assigning Groups to Tasks, and publishing data from tables to Signals Inventa. We have also extended capabilities in Signals VitroVivo, Synergy and around the export of data in grid views. Finally, we have also fixed a number of small bugs.

    The following improvements are available for users, administrators and developers on the Signals platform. Certain features may only be available with appropriate licensing and/or with enablement by an administrator.

    •    Fundamentals
    –    Export the grid view to CSV 

    •    VitroVivo
    –    Simplified and more consistent user experience in the Calculations Explorer
    –    Remembering form information in the Study Designer App
    –    Enabling autosave of the dxp file after adding or deleting Treatment Groups

    •    Inventa
    –    New query and data summarization tool, the Integrated Summary App available to all systems
    –    Reorder material selection attributes in Integrated Summary App available to all systems
    –    Bio Sequence querying in Integrated Summary App available to all systems
    –    Reorder measurement selections in Integrated Summary available to all systems
    –    Quick Query mode in Integrated Summary App available to all systems
    –    Criteria Summary captures split summarizations in Integrated Summary App available to all systems
    –    Integrated Summary App now supports multiple structures Quick Query mode available to all systems
    –    Additional options to split summarization in the Integrated Summary App (ISA), including defining layout and specifying relevant experimental factors or attributes. 
    –    Option to run ISA query with only material criteria
    –    Perform bulk selection on measurement attributes in ISA
    –    Publish Measurement App is now compatible with measurement types designed for ISA
    –    Preview biological sequences in the ISA Quick Query 
    –    Reorder SAR Analysis columns based on column groups
    –    Shortcut to summarization methods and create new tags directly from a Measurement Type
    –    Material Sync now supports synonyms 

    •    Synergy
    –    Bulk Import of Designs from SDF or CSV files
    –    Configuration Transfer for Synergy Data Exchange Transformations and Designs and Reference Table settings

    •    Chemistry
    –    Add new monomer to custom HELM libraries available to all systems
    –    BILN support for peptides
    –    HELM hotkeys for editing biopolymers

    •    Admin Defined Tables & Variation Tables
    –    Calculations on properties of type Number with Unit
    –    Publish Admin Defined Tables to Inventa (beta)

    •    Samples
    –    Read Only Sample Properties

    •    Inventory
    –    Internal Request of Materials with Aliquot available to all systems
    –    Bulk actions from the Container Search Table: Update Current User
    –    Update to the Inventory Bulk Report page
    –    Scan or paste list of barcodes into the Container Search Table
    –    User Notifications

    •    Materials
    –    Show More on batch/lot page
    –    Refresh of calculated material properties (beta)
    –    Improved reporting for Bulk Import tasks
    –    Increased file size limits for Bulk Import/Update tasks
    –    Mixtures library (beta)

    •    Tasks and Requests
    –   Assignment of Tasks to Groups (beta)

    •    ELN Archive
    –   BioAssay/Structured Data content

    •    Integrations & APIs
    –   External Notifications for Task Status changes
    –   External Notifications for Material edit, transfer, and delete
    –   API Endpoints for Material Bulk Update
    –   API Endpoints for Normalized Compound Registration
    –   SDF APIs for creating, retrieving, and modifying SDF measurement types

    Administrators should be aware that the dependency between Inventa Analysis privileges has changed, and they may need to update their User Roles accordingly. All users with “Create Analysis” must also have “Edit Analysis” privileges, and all users with “Trash Analysis” must also have “Edit Analysis” privileges.

    Administrators should be aware that attribute names are now available alongside the attribute ID in the SDF audit log.

    Administrators are recommended to subscribe to the channels within our support news site found at https://support.revvitysignals.com/hc/en-us/categories/360004446171-Support-News which contains more information about releases and other pertinent product information.

    This content is anticipated for release on our Production E3 environments, and for Private Cloud customers on our deferred release schedule, in March 2025.

    Further Details 

    The following improvements are available for users, administrators and developers on the Signals platform. Certain features may only be available with appropriate licensing and/or with enablement by an administrator.

    Fundamentals

    Users are now able to export their grid view searches in Smartfolders to csv. To export the search list to csv, a user should enter selection mode by clicking “Select Items” from the Actions menu.

    The user can then select items or pick “Export Items” from the Action on All option to generate a csv export.

    Once the export is complete, a bulk report is also available.

    VitroVivo

    The Calculations Explorer main panel now shows two simple and clearly identified groups for the visualizations and the calculations. Visualizations can be switched on or off using the eye icon and the formulas of the calculations are presented in the Details tab of the right panel.

    The Calculations Explorer right panel has been updated at the level of the QA tab, which now contains clearly identified sections for manual or automated QA. Moreover, the information in the Details panel is now strictly read-only.

    The Study Designer app now has a new feature, "Remember Form Data," that allows users to preserve form data by enabling a toggle switch. Once activated, this feature automatically retains the information entered in any form, thereby reducing the need for repetitive data entry. This functionality extends to all key forms within the Study Designer, including cohort definition, treatment definition, and treatment group definition forms.

    Autosave is now enabled in the Study Designer app, ensuring that any added or deleted information is automatically saved if the application is closed without manual saving. This feature helps maintain data consistency and prevents the loss of data after an unexpected shutdown. 

    Inventa

    The Integrated Summary App (ISA) offers a new query and data summarization experience.  All previous ISA capabilities are now available to all systems. ISA is an alternative to the Global Search + SAR Analysis Apps.  The Standard Query mode uses admin-defined settings to create a more streamline, templated search experience and allows for aggregation of any attribute (not just endpoints).  The Quick Query mode returns all known information about a particular entity or measurement type with a single click.  

    Users can now run an ISA Standard Query using only material criteria 

    Users can specify which experimental factors are used to split aggregations. They can also specify whether the split aggregations be organized as columns instead of rows.  

    When defining measurement parameters, users can now take advantage of bulk attribute selection. 

    Quick Query mode now supports previews of sequences

    The Publish Measurement App is now compatible with measurement types designed for either Global Search or the Integrated Summary App

    In the SAR Analysis App, columns can now be reordered into different ChemCharts column groups. 

    Material Sync now supports synonyms

    For Data Factory administrators, shortcuts within a Measurement Type Definition page allow admins to quickly update attributes or create new tags. 

    Synergy

    In Synergy, users can now bulk import Designs from SDF and CSV files with SMILES or InChl structure info (UTF8 encoding). On a Designs Table, select Import Designs. 

    The user can then upload an SDF or CSV file and map the columns to the Design fields. 

    When import completes, the user can view the results, including the number of successful and/or failed designs, in the modal. Designs will be added to the Designs Table and the Designs Smart Folder.

    On the administrative side, Transformations from the Synergy Data Exchange Library, as well Designs and Reference Table definitions, can now be transferred from one tenant to another using Configuration Transfer in Signals Configuration. After uploading a Configuration File, available Data Exchange Transformations from the source tenant Data Exchange Library will be shown under Synergy Settings > Data Exchange Settings. Selecting a Transformation will transfer the Details, Examples, Attachments, and other configuration settings for that Transformation. In addition, under Synergy Settings > Designs & Materials, selecting a Material Type will transfer the Design Definition, Designs Table settings, and Reference Table settings for Designs, Material Assets, and Material Batches for the selected Material Type. (Note that the Material Record Definition, Material Table settings, and other non-Synergy settings for the Material Type will not be impacted by this selection. Those settings can be transferred by selecting the Material Type under the general Materials section above the Synergy Settings.) 

    Chemistry

    Adding a single monomer at a time to a custom monomer library in the HELM Monomer Curation (HMC) application, previously available in beta, is now available to all systems. Monomer structures can be drawn and edited directly within HMC, and all monomer properties defined in the ‘Add New Monomer’ form. 

    BILN format, a human readable line notation for complex peptides, is now supported. Users can create complex peptides by pasting a BILN string to the ChemDraw canvas or by inserting a BILN string using the text tab in the HELM editor. Additionally, ‘Copy As’ support has also been added allowing users to generate a BILN string from a peptide sequence drawn on the canvas.

    Hotkeys are now supported when using the HELM editor. When editing a sequence on the canvas, any monomer from the selected monomer library with a single-letter symbol can be inserted by pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard. Similarly, any selected monomer while in HELM edit mode can be replaced by pressing a valid single-letter monomer from the selected library. For example, when the 'Peptide' tab is active in the HELM Editor and the 'Natural Monomers' library is selected, pressing 'a' will either insert monomer A (Alanine) or replace existing monomer with A (Alanine). HELM hotkey support is available in the Peptide, DNA/RNA and Blob/Chem tabs of the HELM editor.

    Admin Defined Tables & Variation Tables

    Configuration admins can now define new calculations incorporating properties of type Number With Unit. The function GETVALUE allows for the conversion of a Number with Unit into a Number which can be used in subsequent calculations. The function has two arguments. The first argument is used to identify the property of type Number with Unit. The second argument is used to identify the unit used for the conversion.

    Samples

    Admins can now make properties Read-Only for users in the UI. It is important to note that these Read-Only properties can still be updated systematically via the APIs. Under Sample Settings a new option is available. 

    Admins can simply select the Read Only Option on a property. For existing properties, the Read Only selection would make that property Read Only for all live samples. 

    Inventory

    The Internal Request of Materials with Aliquot is now available to all systems.
    We have added Update Current User to the Bulk actions from the Container Search Table. 

    When updating the Current User, the name of a Signals Notebook user can be typed in or set to unassigned:

    Once completed, a report will be created: