Dotmatics, a provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announces Version 5.0, a new release of the company’s informatics suite. The new suite contains major enhancements that enable scientific teams to become more productive and better communicate between biologics and small molecule in-house, and externalised collaborative research teams.
The new release allows IT departments to integrate Dotmatics seamlessly into existing informatics landscapes while minimising the total cost of ownership through ease of maintenance, minimised user training, and optional cloud deployment.
A cleaner, simpler framework and new drag and drop user interface for the ELN (Studies Notebook) includes an intuitive redesign with navigation paradigms that allow scientists to find and share information quickly. The new interface allows for quicker training to large and remote user teams, supports increased deployments at CROs, and external partners providing improved productivity in all scientific disciplines. New performance monitoring tools and experiment dashboards greatly increase the ability of the project managers to monitor progress across internal or external discovery projects.
When used in conjunction with new releases of Bio Register and Vortex, the redesigned ELN gives molecular biologists a fully integrated commercial solution supporting their biologics discovery.
Spaces is a social teamboard application designed to enhance communication of scientific data across dispersed teams within a company or in multi-company collaborative research networks. Spaces provides a highly flexible set of interactive scientific teamboards that facilitate timely decision making, real-time social communication on scientific data, and results between all members of a project team.
A new scientific data management system (SDMS) capability in 5.0 allows data files generated by instruments connected to remote PCs to be automatically uploaded and stored in the Dotmatics system, with versioning, audit and digital signature information attached. The data files are immediately available for inclusion in the ELN (Studies Notebook) – a huge benefit to users who would have previously had to navigate the network to find the files, or even take a USB stick to the instrument PC. In addition, 5.0 contains expanded RESTful Web Services APIs. These APIs allow developers to integrate Dotmatics capabilities with third party software (for example calling Dotmatics registration as a service directly from a third party ELN) to support common scientific discovery workflows that cross multiple vendors’ offerings.
