SRS Version 8.3
New Functionality in SRS 8.3
SRS version 8.3 includes some exciting new functionality as well as mprovements in the user interface and support for new platforms.The latest developments continue our aim of bringing intelligent medical search to the desktops of scientists. In the latest version, scientists are able to add their own annotations to entries that become searchable with SRS. Furthermore, SRS now allows email alerts to be added to any favorite search.
click here to download the SRS 8.3 factsheet
Alerting
With the new alerting functionality, users no longer have to regularly repeat their favorite queries. Users can choose to be notified via email when the results of queries change, when entries are added or deleted - the alert frequency is configurable.
When clicking the automatic link, RRS displays new and updated entries to make it easier for the user to visualize the changes in the data.
Annotations
Annotations in the form of notes, comments, literature references (with hyperlinks), features on a sequence and URLs can be added to entries or blocks of entries. Once added, and depending on the permissions set by the user, these annotations become searchable and editable by SRS users. Indexing is not required and the entries are accessed via the SRS Relational Module. Further options allow the use of controlled vocabularies and revision history.
Support for Workflows
Through the recent partnership with InforSense, SRS will become available via the KDE platform. KDE will be able to access hundreds of databases and analysis tools through powerful APIs in SRS WSObjects and the SRS Gateway for Oracle. Customers can now quickly build workflows using the power of SRS without needing to build connections to each individual database and tool.
Platform Changes
SRS now supports RedHat AS/ES 4.0 (32 and 64-bit versions), Java 1.5 and 1.6. Click here to download the SRS 8.3 Technical Requirements sheet
Usability Enhancements
Several improvements have been made to the user interface including the ability to store users' protein and nucleic acid sequences in mySRS from the clipboard, existing sequence data or from files; two click launching of sequence tools (blast, clustalw etc); renaming and description editing of favorite searches; direct URL access to allow other web applications to link directly to SRS data and download this data to Excel, XML etc .
