We are delighted to release our new version of Signals, 26.5.
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
- Publish ontology fields to Data Factory
- Bookmarks in Smartfolders
- Caching of Stoich grid data while Chemical drawing is in Edit mode
- Addition of “Weeks” as an additional Unit in the Duration Measure
- Bulk Register Materials from Samples Tables and Samples Summary Tables
- Display warning message when cloning experiment based on a template user cannot access
- Data Workflows & Analytics*
- Additional Quality Control and Curve Fitting metrics
- Publication of all Quality Control and Curve Fitting metrics
- Synergy†
- CRO users can now use CRO Advanced Search to reference items in internal fields
- External actions on Work Orders
- Sponsor Admin can bulk update CRO Departments for CRO users
- Define default values, including Synergy Experiment Template, on Work Tasks Templates (beta)
- Tables
- Add a Container to an existing row in an Inventory enabled Admin Defined Table or Variation Table
- Add a Container to an existing row in an Inventory enabled Hierarchical Table*
- Line Charts on Admin Defined Tables*
- Checkbox, Variable Measure and Variable Property can be used on the categorical axis of a Bar Chart on Admin Defined Tables*
- BioDesign°
- Users can now register BioDesign Sequences in a Material Library and reference BioDesign Sequences
- Inventory
- Move containers out of grid locations during disposal directly from the container search table
- Add container properties to the Reactants table
- InventoryGo ‡
- Enable Auto Complete Rectification in InventoryGo with configuration to move Not Scanned and Unexpected containers to an admin‑defined location
- Materials
- Additional calculated properties for protein complexes
- UI update to material tables configuration (beta)
- Mark fields as Read-Only in Materials
- Administration
- Use multiple headers with the SciBite CENtree External Ontology Source
- Selective export for configuration migration (beta)
- Integrations & Interfaces
- Hide/Unhide columns API
- Move Experiment to new Notebook API
- Return from Archive API
- Fetch Individual Material Libraries definitions API
- Fetch all CRO users API
- Additional CRO APIs for Chemical Drawings
* Requires Signals One license
† Requires Signals Synergy license
‡ Requires InventoryGo license
° Requires Signals BioDesign License
We also fixed several small bugs in this release. Details of the enhancements are described below.
The following OnDemand videos for Signals Synergy are now available:
- Recording your Chemical Synthesis in Signals Synergy
Administrators should note that this release includes an upgrade to Spotfire® 14.6 LTS. Users will receive the updated version as part of the standard upgrade experience.
Developers should note the Materials API now includes the calculated property on a field definition only when its value is true. Previously it was inconsistently included (with value false) for admin-defined properties. Note that calculated is true only for certain system-default material properties, and not for admin-defined properties.
All CRO users in the assigned CRO Department can now Start a Work Order. This is a relaxed requirement, which previously required the assigned CRO user or CRO Department Manger to Start Work.
Administrators should note that we are planning to resolve an inconsistency in the way non global numbering currently works for Parallel Experiments, Requests, Inventa Analysis objects and In Vitro Analysis objects. These objects will now take the next number in sequence regardless of object type. The current behavior is that they take the next number in sequence for the given object type. This change will occur in a future release.
Data Factory Administrators should note that legacy Data Factory projects will be fully deprecated in a future release. A straightforward migration path is now available to support this transition. A specific deadline has not yet been scheduled.
Data Factory administrators should also note that the Advanced Security policies in Inventa apply an “AND” logic across all user groups, restricting access if any groups lack permissions. This behavior differs from the standard Signals security model and will be fixed to align with the standard in a future release.
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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 2026.