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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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.
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Biowisdom SRS 8.3 FactSheet |
The standard distribution of SRS contains all the components required to integrate the wealth of publicly available bioinformatics and genomic data stored in flat-files, XML files or relational databases. Out-of-the box SRS comes with parsers and support for over 80 public domain databases and hundreds of analysis tools, including sequence similarity, alignment analysis, as well as support for the full EMBOSS suite. SRS is fully customizable and site-specific databanks or tools can be easily integrated.
SRS Prisma significantly reduces the time needed to administer SRS by automating the daily integration of all relevant life science data into the customer’s bioinformatics environment.
SRS Prisma is designed to ensure that all in-house databases (this also includes databases outside of an SRS installation) are current and available so that scientists across the organization can effectively use the most up to date data for their research.
SRS WSObjects enables developers to quickly build life science informatics solutions incorporating the full capabilities of SRS. Using SRS WSObjects’ comprehensive APIs applications can be developed to address internal needs whilst exploiting the comprehensive data sets and analysis tools provided by SRS. Custom interfaces can be built to tackle novel problems, such as constructing workflows and analysis pipelines to assess gene expression results or provide protein annotations. All applications can be run against a single SRS server, which is also used to support the web interface, ensuring a simple and robust SRS architecture.
Training is not included with the purchase of the software licenses, unless covered in your contract with BioWisdom. If your organization would like additional training on the use of our software, our scientists can provide this on-site or via web-based conferencing. Training can include best practices as well as the mechanics of using our software.
For more information or to discuss training services with BioWisdom, contact us at sales@biowisdom.com
| Training Module | Days |
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| SRS Configuration and Maintenance | |
| a) Introduction | 0.5 |
| b) Basic Administration & configuration (includes Tomcat for beginners) | 1 |
| c) Tools | 0.5 |
| d) SRS Prisma (customer request) | 0.5 |
| e) Troubleshooting | 0.5 |
| SRS Database Integration | |
| a) Introduction to parsing and Icarus | 0.5 |
| b) Integrating flat file data | 2.0 |
| c) Integrating XML data | 0.5 |
| d) Views, loaders, entry views, JSP pages | 1.0 |
| e) Integrating relational databases | 1.0 |
| Developing with SRS (module based) | |
| a) Introduction to querying and retrieval in SRS | 0.5 |
| b) Writing Icarus scripts | 0.5 |
| c) SRS WSObjects (language specified by customer) | 1.0 |
In this SRS Webinar Frédéric Plewniak from BIPS demonstrates the SRS integration within the Strasbourg Bioinformatics Platform
 | SRS Webinar: Applications and Integration at the Strasbourg Bioinformatics Platform |
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BioWisdom SRS 8.3 Webinar June 2009 - Slides |
In this SRS Webinar BioWisdom and Mark Miller from Merck Inc. present the new features of SRS 8.3 and some of the benefits of the integration of data and tools in the SRS interface
| SRS Webinar: SRS 8.3 - Features, Functions and Benefits |