BioWisdom is proud to announce the recent addition of support for chemistry searches and integration into the standard edition of our data search and retrieval platform, BioWisdom SRS.

This latest addition allows users unprecedented levels of integration of chemistry data with the wide range of public and proprietary datasets available within SRS. Starting from a structure of interest or a SMILES string, users can perform advanced searches into chemistry databases to identify related or structurally similar compounds.
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We have just released a new patch update for SRS 8.3. This latest update adds a number of new features, as well as general improvements in the usability and stability of SRS. There are about 20 new types of exports (including some new XML formats) available for various databanks in SRS and improved handling of binary data such as images or chemical structure files. There are a number of improvements in the layout and functionality of the web interface using the latest browsers, as well as improved compatibility with the latest platforms.

You can read the full release notes as well as download the software itself in the SRS 8.3 Downloads area.

The latest additions to the databases supported by SRS also include ChEMBL (a database of bioactive small molecules and their activities in biological systems), the KEGG Disease database – (part of the of the KEGG databases suite, describes various diseases, usually with a genetic component), the MEROPS peptidase database, HMDB (a database of compounds in the human metabolism, and the enzymes involved in their metabolization) and DrugBank (a drugs and protein/gene targets database).

You can keep up to date with the latest additions and changes to SRS parsers using the SRS 8.3 parser updates news feed.

New Functionality in SRS 8.3

SRS version 8.3 includes some exciting new functionality as well as improvements 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.

Biowisdom SRS 8.3 FactSheet

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SRS is a proven and scalable data integration platform that is used at over 300 commercial and academic sites delivering genomic data to thousands of users. SRS facilitates the rapid development of applications and algorithms, as well as bioinformatics portals for the Internet or Intranet, making the data efficiently available to entire organizations.

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