What's New
We are delighted to release our new version of Signals, 25.6. This release brings enhancements in audit trials, Synergy, Inventory, Variation Tables and Inventa amongst others. We have a new beta capabilities of an In Vitro Analysis object, and extended beta capabilities around publishing results to Data Factory. The beta capabilities around Internal Data Sources in Text Elements are now available to all systems. 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
–Audit trail captures the initial state of content upon copying a system template, experiment, or personal template
- AI
–Schema Updates to support SDK Generation
- Data Workflows & Analytics
–In Vitro Analysis (beta) - SAR & Decisioning
–Internal References support in Inventa Analyses
–Integrated Summary App supports “Is Any Of” for numeric attributes
–Automapping improvements in Publish Results to Data Factory app (beta)
- Synergy
–Support for Normalized Compounds in Synergy Designs and Reference Tables
–Duplicate check Designs against both Designs and Materials of the same material type
–Search and filter Designs by Assigned CRO
–Capture Design ID on Reactants, Products, and Samples created from Designs
–Synergy Experiment properties can be configured to inherit from Collaboration properties
–Share Synergy Experiment Templates to CRO Department(s)
–Append Template to Synergy Experiments for CRO users
–Configuration Transfer support for Reference Table definitions
–Publish Admin Defined Tables from Synergy Experiments to Inventa – available to all systems”
- Chemistry
–Show/hide residue IDs of biopolymers
–Auto-pair tool now accepts RNA/DNA strands with pendant Chem or peptide monomers
–Enhanced selection behavior for atoms, bonds and structures
–Attach Data can now be added as chemically significant
- Admin Defined Tables & Variation Tables
–Include Component Headers in Variant Calculations
–Update to Publish Variation Table to support variable measures in headers and columns
–Variation Table Vertical View update for variant hidden rows
- Samples
–Moles calculation in Samples utilizing Radioactivity
- Plates
–Addition of Mass (g) to Amount Annotation Layer in Plates
- Inventory
–New label
–Update to Internal Request workflow to include Material ID of registered Samples
- Materials
–Bulk import with multipart GenPept and Swiss-Prot files
- Administration
–Spotfire for Signals Access Workflows privilege available
–Internal Data Sources now available in Autotext available to all systems
–IDS checkbox to allow admin to specify which sources are available in text element
- Integrations & APIs
–API for Sequence pairing from two chemical drawings
–API enhanced to export plates as CSV
–API to modify CRO users
–API to fetch CSV example for bulkImport
–API with additional criteria for Data extraction from SDF
We also fixed several small bugs in this release. Details of the enhancements are described below.
Data Factory Administrators should be aware that the maximum number of measurement attributes has been increased to 7000
Data Factory Administrators should be aware that Dataset warnings are now presented in reverse-chronological order (up to 100)
Data Factory Administrators should be aware that the primary API GET /job-service/job has been deleted
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This content is anticipated for release on our Production E3 environments, and for Private Cloud customers on our deferred release schedule, in November 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
The audit trail now captures the initial state of content when copying a system template, experiment, or personal template. When content is copied, the audit trail logs both 'created' and 'edited' records showing the previous version with the initial content. This enhancement applies only to newly created content and is not retroactive.
AI
The Swagger page for Notebook APIs has been enhanced with better Schema information for API responses. This is in preparation for providing access to YAML files to facilitate SDK Generation through OpenAPI tools.
SAR & Decisioning
The Assay Details preview section of Inventa Analyses now supports the display of internal references
Integrated Summary App support “Is Any Of” for numeric attributes, allowing users to search for a set of numeric criteria.
Synergy
Normalized Compounds are now supported in Synergy for both Designs and Reference Tables. The Normalized Compounds libraries facilitate the registration of materials with a salt-stripped structure as an asset, while still retaining the original raw structure for the batches associated with that asset. Salt stripping is valuable when working with CROs that deliver compounds. To enable a material library of type Normalized Compounds, activate the library for Synergy in Signals Configuration and then configure Designs and Reference Tables in Synergy Configuration.
Release 25.6 also brings several new features in Synergy related to Designs. First, when creating or importing Designs, Designs can be checked for uniqueness against Designs only or Designs and Material Assets of the same Material type. The Administrator can change this setting under the Uniqueness Rules for each Material type in Signals Configuration.
Designs have a new property called Assigned CRO. Assigned CRO is automatically captured when a Design is added to a Work Order for a CRO. Designs can be searched and filtered by Assigned CRO in both Advanced Search.
When a CRO user or Sponsor user adds a Design to a Chemical Drawing as a Product or Reactant, the Design ID is captured in the Design ID property in the stoichiometry grid. The Design ID is propagated to subsequently created Samples. If the Sample is then registered, the Originating Design will be added to the Material and the Design status updated to Synthesis Complete. If the Design is added as a Product, the Design ID is also added to the Reference from W.O. property of the Synergy Experiment for ease of search for related Synergy Experiments.
Synergy Experiment Template attribute list fields can be configured to inherit the property from the parent Collaboration. If a field is set to inherit, the field will be automatically populated with the corresponding value from the parent Collaboration on the Draft Synergy Experiment and all subsequent Synergy Experiments created by the CRO users. As a result, the Sponsor or CRO user does not have to repeatedly populate the same property, such as Project Code or Disease Target.
CRO users can now Append Template to a Synergy Experiment. This allows CRO users to add additional content for specific use cases. The Synergy Administrator can share Synergy Experiment Templates to CRO Department(s).
Finally, Configuration Transfer now supports the transfer of Reference Table configuration settings.
The ability to publish Admin Defined Tables (ADTs) to Data Factory from Synergy Experiments is now available to all systems. Similar to the publication functionality in internal Experiments. Properties of the Synergy Experiment, including those that are Hidden from CRO, and columns of the Tables can be mapped to measurement type attributes in a specified Data Factory project and published by the Sponsor user.
Chemistry
The auto-pair tool has been improved to work with a wider range of RNA and DNA strands. This enhancement allows strands that include additional Chem or peptide monomers when finding the complementarity between strands and placing hydrogen bonds between them.
The auto-pair tool has been improved to work with a wider range of RNA and DNA strands. This enhancement allows strands that include additional Chem or peptide monomers when finding the complementarity between strands and placing hydrogen bonds between them.
There is now enhanced visualization in ChemDraw when atoms, bonds and structures are selected on the canvas. ChemDraw now individually highlights all the atoms, bonds and structures that are part of the selection, in addition to the selection box that appears upon selection on the canvas. This provides a clear distinction between selected and unselected elements on the canvas.
When annotating a molecule or stereocenter in ChemDraw using the 'Attach Data' capability, annotations can now be specified as 'chemically significant'. When this option is selected, annotations become chemically significant and are recognized and honored in chemical searches. Additionally, users can now edit existing annotations by selecting them and reopening the 'Attach Data' dialog in ChemDraw.
Admin Defined Tables & Variation Tables
Headers in Components in Variation Tables can now be used in calculations in Variants. The Variant Headers can be found in the selectable properties or can be entered manually.
Update to Publish Variation Table to support variable measures in headers and columns. Administrators can now map variable measure field(s) from both columns and headers for both Components and Variants:
Variation Table Vertical View update for variant hidden rows now is darker gray and will not allow users to type in cells associated with hidden rows:
Samples
A new Moles calculation in Samples utilizing Radioactivity and Molar Activity is now available. If the user enters Radioactivity and Molar Activity values for a Sample, Moles is calculated as “Moles = Radioactivity / Molar Radioactivity”
If the user subsequently enters an Amount on the sample, Moles will be recalculated using the Amount and FM as is standard.
Plates
Users can now enter values in the Amount annotation Layer utilizing Mass (g). Values with this new unit are included in the table and export just as the previously available volume amounts.
Inventory
A new 48 by 16 mm label is designed to have the QR code fit inside of a circle that can be added to the top of a tube. The 1-D barcode was designed to fit on a rectangle label next to the circle label and put on the tube vertically:
Update to Internal Request workflow to include Material ID of registered Samples. When users register a Sample from the Samples table the Material ID will automatically be filled in.
Now in the Internal Request, users will see the Sample ID, the Containers and the Material ID as an option to select from:
Materials
Multipart GenPept, FASTA, and Swiss-Prot files can now be bulk imported into a Proteins material library. Workflows are available to bulk import a collection of single sequence files (current capability), a single multipart file and corresponding meta-data (via .zip folder), or a single multipart file with fixed values (via multipart .gb or .fa file).
Administration
Spotfire for Signals Access Workflows privilege available to control which users can access and substantiate a Spotfire for Signals Workflow. Also controls who can import and export workflows. Users without this privilege can still leverage Workflows embedded within shared DXPs.
Internal Data Sources now available in Autotext available to all systems. Additionally, Admins are now able to select which Internal Data Sources are available for use in the text element by selecting the checkbox on the IDS in the SN Config.
Once the Admin Enables the IDS in the text element, users will be able to select the IDS to utilize in snippets or in the text element.
Integrations & APIs
This update brings new APIs to support modifying CRO users in Signals Synergy. Synergy Users for a provided CRO may be updated in bulk. This is an asynchronous API that allows the bulk update status to be checked once initiated via the POST API. The POST API takes a CSV files with User ID,Email,First Name,Last Name,Country,Alias,Licenses. Field are optional as when applicable.
Plates can now be exported as CSV via the External API. To download the plate as a CSV set the “format” URL parameter to “csv”. The default format will be a JSON file if not specified.
The example zip for material bulk import can now be specified to contain a CSV example. To download the zip with a CSV example set the “dataFileType” url parameter to “csv”. The default data type will be SDF if not specified.
A new API has been added to pair two single oligonucleotide sequences and create a chemical drawing of the paired sequence.
The request takes an eid of a parent as a URL parameter and the body takes two chemical drawings each containing a single oligonucleotide sequence as well as a parent entity. If the pairing is successful a chemical drawing of the resulting pair is added to the provided parent entity.
The parent entity must be capable of having a child chemical drawing.
Two new endpoints have been added to Signals Data Factory for exporting data from projects.
These endpoints will all or a specific measurement type data by Project.
The request will allow for, and the response will contain a search ID and last document id. Providing these in subsequent requests will allow for pagination, and to only capture data that has comes after the provided last document id.
An optional request body can be used to filter the results further.
For all measurement types you can filter on: Entity, Attribute(s), and Tag(s) as well as specify which fields you want returned in the results.
For individual measurement types you can filter on: Entity and Attribute(s) as well as specify which fields you want returned in the results.
Further Details
The following capabilities are in beta and are available for users, administrators and developers on the Signals platform upon request. Please contact your account representative or our support team if you would like access to the following features.
Data Workflows & Analytics
For tenants with a Signals One license, users will now be able to perform In Vitro (screening, assays) data analysis, visualization and results quality control. The first curve fitting method available, is the logistic 4 Parameter (4P) fit.
Parsing of instruments output files is now directly available in Signals One to generate analytics-ready tabular data. Some System parser definitions for Revvity plate readers (e.g. EnVision, EnSpire, Operetta,…) are provided out of the box:
The data from the instrument output files can be enriched with the information about the plate format and the materials tested to provide all the information required for the visual analytics steps:
The analysis and visualization is organized in steps. Currently, normalization:
and 4P curve fitting steps are available:
Each curve can be controlled in detail and outliers excluded from the analysis at the level of the data points or even whole curves:
SAR & Decisioning
Minor automapping enhancements were introduced to the Publish Results to Data Factory to prioritize the optimal match, even if the same data table column is associated with multiple attributes.