Revvity Signals™ Research Suite, including Signals Notebook, Update

Revvity Signals™ Notebook - What’s New

The Signals Research Suite is a complete, integrated data capture, processing & analysis SaaS software for scientific research. Capture, manage, and share experiment data, notes and research findings in a secure and accessible environment built on the foundation of Signals Research Platform.

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23.10 November 2023 (Update to E3 in March 2024) -
What’s New
This version 23.10 release of Signals brings the ability to synchronize custom material libraries to Signals Inventa. We have also made a number of improvements to Inventory, added locking to embedded Tables in Worksheets, improved the process for adding multiple Internal References, enhanced our Materials Libraries and extended our External APIs. We have continued to work on our ongoing beta capabilities for HELM monomers. Finally, we have also fixed a number of small bugs.

The following improvements are available for users of Signals Notebook Individual Edition, Signals Notebook Standard, Signals Notebook Private Cloud, Signals Research Suite Standard and Signals Research Suite Private Cloud. Certain features may only be available with appropriate licensing and/or with enablement by an administrator.

  • Fundamentals
    • –  Type or paste of internal references (beta)
  • Inventa
    • –  Sync custom Material Libraries
    • –  Out-of-the-box maps for Material Libraries
  • Worksheets
    • –  Embedded Admin Defined Tables can be locked after editing and require a Reason for Change to be further edited
  • Inventory
    • –  Tooltip for on-the-fly Container amount calculation to US units
    • –  Admin option to enable/disable US unit calculations
    • –  New Label Templates for Containers
    • –  Location Grid Coordinates shown for all Locations Paths
    • –  Container Search Table (beta)
  • Materials
    • –  Bulk export Materials as a .zip archive
    • –  Bulk update of Sequence Materials
    • –  None option for Pictogram, Hazard, and Precautionary Statements
  • Administration
    • –  Unlock locked users in Signals Authentication
    • –  File download of file versions from the audit log
    • –  Configuration Transfer of HELM Monomer library (beta)
  • Integrations & APIs
    • –  Locked Admin Defined Tables in Worksheets can be patched with a reason for change
    • –  API support for bulk import of RNA Materials.
    • –  API support to bulk export chemically aware libraries in additional formats
    • –  API support to retrieve HELM Monomer libraries

We also fixed several small bugs in this release. Details of the enhancements are described below.

Administrators should note that certain of our operational URLs will be changing as part of our rebranding effort from PerkinElmer to Revvity If you currently whitelist our operational URLs you will need to add the new URLs in order to continue unrestricted access to the application. If you do not whitelist our operational URLs then you can ignore this message. Specifically if you have whitelisted “login.snb.perkinelmercloud.com” you should add “login.srp.revvitycloud.com”. Also if you have whitelisted webdav.*, for example “webdav.signalsnotebook.perkinelmer.cloud” you should add webdav.signalsresearch.revvitycloud.com”. Additionally if you have whitelisted incoming emails from the application, please also add noreply-srs@revvitycloud.com or just revvitycloud.com to your whitelist. Further information on whitelisting operational URLs can be found here.

Administrators and users are reminded that we are beginning to transition to new URLs for accessing the application with this release. We will be adding the new access URLs shortly after the release and removing the original URLs at the end of March. We encourage you to update relevant bookmarks and start using the new URLs as soon as they become available. Further information on the ongoing changes to our URLs and the potential actions you may need to take can be found here.

Developers should note that we will be changing the GET/entities endpoint to exclude Trashed Items by default. The "includeOptions" will now default to "untrashed" when no explicit parameters are specified. To get the current pre-change behavior you can include "trashed,untrashed" as the "includeOptions". This will not impact users who are already specifying specific "includeOptions" as part of their usage of the endpoint. This change will occur in a future release.

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This content is anticipated for release on our Production E3 environments, and for Private Cloud customers on our deferred release schedule, in March 2024.

Further Details


The following improvements are available for users of Signals Notebook Individual Edition, Signals Notebook Standard, Signals Notebook Private Cloud, Signals Research Suite Standard and Signals Research Suite Private Cloud. Certain features may only be available with appropriate licensing and/or with enablement by an administrator.

Inventa

Custom material libraries can now be synced to Inventa in Signals Research Suite tenants. As a reminder, only 1 library can be selected for the Material Sync.

Inventa

Example Inventa maps for out-of-the-box material libraries (Antibody, Cell Line, Compound, Plasmid, Reagent) are now available from the Help Center.

Inventa


Worksheets

Embedded Tables in Worksheets can now be set to be locked once edited. The “Lock field after value has been entered” setting is now available on Table type properties when defining the Worksheet. Once selected, a table will become locked to further editing once it contains data and the user has stopped editing it. In order to make further edits the user must unlock the table, those edits are not saved until the user completes the Reason For Change workflow.

Worksheets

Inventory

A new tooltip for on-the-fly Container amount calculation to US units is now available in inventory. The tooltip automatically converts the SI amount into a fixed set of US units as follows:

Inventory

This tooltip is currently only available for Container Amounts and not the Total Container amount value. This tooltip and the associated US unit converter on container creation are now controlled by an Admin option to enable/disable US unit calculations.

Inventory

We have added two new label sizes with QR codes and pictograms, for Containers: 50 x 50 mm and 101 x 50 mm.

Inventory

Location Grid Coordinates will also now show for all Location Paths.

Inventory

If the path is too long, the coordinate will show in the hover over.

Inventory


Materials

Materials can now be exported as a Zip archive. This archive will include file attachments and images for the selected Materials.

Materials

Sequence based Materials may include sequence files in a bulk update. A supported file type should be included in the upload. Users will see new examples and scenarios of how the system will handle sequence file types uploaded to a given target Material collection.

Materials

"None" is now an option for Pictograms, Hazard, and Precautionary Statements to make the safety information more accurate in Material Libraries.

Materials


Administration

If an end user attempts to log into Signals Notebook multiple times using an incorrect password, their user account in the Signals Authentication service can become blocked. If this happens, administrators can force the unblocking rather than waiting for the block to be removed. The unblock option is available from the user screen.

Administration

File changes in the audit log are now available for download. For example, if a Sequence based Material file is updated, both the current and previous version are available for download from the system.

Administration

Integrations & APIs

Endpoints for editing ADTs have been enhanced to support the locking of ADTs embedded in Worksheets to ensure that a reason is entered for any change on a locked table. The PATCH/adt/{eid}, POST/adt/{eid}, PATCH/adt/{eid}/{rowid}, and DELETE/adt/{eid}/{rowid} endpoints have been enhanced to allow for a valid reason for change to be entered via a “meta” field when a locked table is being edited.

Integrations & APIs

The Materials bulk import API now supports import of RNA Materials. An example zip file can be downloaded with the GET API "/materials/{libraryName}/bulkImport/example" endpoint.

Integrations & APIs

The POST /materials/{libraryName}/bulkExport endpoint now supports exporting chemistry type Materials via a CSV in SMILES, InChI, or HELM formats.

Integrations & APIs

A new endpoint is available to fetch the configuration of all active HELM Monomer Libraries. Note that this endpoint will not be usable without activation of the Monomer Library beta capability.

Integrations & APIs


The following capabilities are in beta and are only available to users and administrators of Signals Notebook Standard, Signals Notebook Private Cloud, Signals Research Suite Standard and Signals Research Suite Private Cloud upon request. Please contact your account representative or our support team if you would like access to the following features. They are unavailable as part of Signals Notebook Individual Edition.

Fundamentals

Internal references can be typed or pasted into tables. If the value is unique and matches an admin defined query, it will convert to a valid link with preview options available. Users may paste across and down columns and paste actions can include multiple values. Users will see error messages if an internal reference cannot be mapped as typed or pasted. For paste actions with multiple internal references, the operation will fail if any of the pasted values are invalid, and a warning will be displayed. Users can still enter internal references using the search icon in each table cell.

Plates


Inventory

We have added a new page to show containers available in Inventory. This can be found by clicking the bottle icon at the top of the page.

Inventory

To change the headers in the table, click the Show/Hide Properties to deselect the unwanted properties.

Inventory

To filter the containers to Samples, Material Libraries with Batches/Lots or Material Libraries with only assets select the corresponding checkbox.

Inventory

You can further filter containers based on Material Library.

Inventory

You can also adjust headers based on the available properties from the selected Material Libraries.

Inventory

To see containers for multiple types at once check multiple boxes (ex: Samples and Material Libraries with Batches/Lots).

Inventory


Administration

HELM Monomer Libraries configuration may now be included in a configuration transfer file. The libraries as well as the search order of the libraries in the source tenant may be selected for transfer to the destination tenant. Transfer of the monomers in each library should be conducted via the HELM Monomer Curation App.

Administration
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