SRS Version 8.3 Available to Academics
6 November 2008, Cambridge, UK - BioWisdom Ltd (BioWisdom), a leader in the provision of healthcare software and healthcare intelligence for the pharmaceutical industry, today announces the release of SRS version 8.3 to academics.
SRS 8.3 provides new functionality, improved user interface and support for the latest hardware and software platforms. It was released to commercial customers in January and has now been made available to academics at a greatly reduced price.
Improvements in the new version include:
- A User Annotations Module - allows users to add their own annotation to any entry discovered using SRS and make these annotations searchable by anyone else within the organisation;
- An Alerting Module - allows users to register interest in a specific query and receive notifications via email when the results of the query change;
- Usability improvements - giving users the ability to add protein and nucleic sequences to a personal database, improved functionality to rename and add descriptions to favourite queries;
- Direct URL Access - allows other web-based applications to directly link to SRS data and download/extract the data in multiple formats (including Excel and XML);
- Improved platform support - SRS now supports RedHat AS/ES 4.0 in both 32 bit and 64 bit formats.
"SRS remains the world's leading bioinformatics platform for both academic and commercial organisations. This release is further demonstration of our continued commitment to the academic community going forward" said Chris Hodkinson, COO of BioWisdom.
"SRS has been providing the principal access to bioinformatics public databanks at IGBMC since version 5, during this time the service and support has been efficient and helpful" said Frédéric Plewniak "SRS version 8.3 brings significant improvements; a dynamic and easy to use web interface, the capacity to explore related information directly within the results table and the ability to save projects for traceability and reuse are certainly all great features. The move to a web services interface greatly improves databank access from our Java applications.
