ELN 7.3 Release Notes

General

  • Added a simplified copy feature for experiments and notebooks.
  • UIUX

    • Enhanced experiment tab display within the Workspace.
    • Improved Dark Mode display.
    • Improved dropdown box display across the ELN.
    • Refined various sections of the experiment forms for better organization and usability.
    • Improved table display in PDF downloads. 

    Experimental Templates

    • New forms introduced for:
      • Formulation workflows with integration capabilities.
      • Conjugation workflows.
      • LNP (Liponanoparticles)
    • Adjustments to co-author functions for inactive users.
    • Witnesses can now be reassigned by a different user.
    • Single step reaction:
      • New pivoted display option added for tables.
      • Updates to features in the Procedure section of the SSR form.
      • Reaction Details updated in the SSR form.
      • Certain tables in the SSR form are no longer displayed by default.
    • Form field names in the Flex-Form have been updated and expanded.
    • New features introduced to the Dose-Response form.
      • Simplified form is available.
      • Unpublish data feature added.
      • Improved curve display.

    Search

    • Users can now search for text within files embedded in experiments.

    External

    General

    • New Report feature for Admins which allows managers to collect and chart data on user activity.
    • The Certified user option is now hidden by default.
    • Users can now perform wildcard searches with Chinese characters in Project Name and Notebook Name fields.
    • When the default configuration of one notebook per project is activated, a user’s notebook cannot be moved to a different project via the Notebooks page Change Project icon, under the Explore icon, where that user already has a notebook.
    • The system can be configured to store all attachment files in the S3 bucket (a secure and scalable repository within the provided Amazon cloud for file storage). This feature is available on both Scilligence cloud servers and customer servers.
    • A new column has been added in the Main List under Notebook to display the Form Type of the listed experiments.
    • After using the search function, users are now able to use the filtering features in the Main List.
    • Users can now search using the Employee ID in the Full Name field within the Project section.
    • In the Workspace’s Main List, the width of a column matches the width of the longest text in that column. 
    • Data Reader is now able to display Chinese characters in the Data Reader Name field. 
    • Sysadmin features like Manage Sites, IP ranges and My Table Manager are hidden from Admins. 
    • Added configuration option to add Additional information to automated request emails to inform users of the nature of the request. 
    • The new copy/paste experiment feature allows users to copy an experiment from one notebook to another without using the cart feature.

    ELN Forms (General)

    • The help text that appears when editing Experiment forms under the Admin, Manage Forms page is updated for clarity.
    • AutoText tokens are no longer editable in the Procedure of any form.
    • New feature allows user to delete, append or rename files/experiments by right-clicking on them within the attachment section. 
    • An experiment no longer saves automatically if no changes are made when navigating away from it.
    • A more detailed error message appears when a user attempts to create an experiment in a project for which they no longer have “write” privileges. "Please create documents within your notebooks or folders. Write privilege is required in the associated project."
    • The design of Pivot tables is improved for closed experiments. 
    • A new feature allows users to use existing experiments as templates. 
    • The SOP pop up window accessible through the Procedure table has been renamed to Procedure Template.
    • The audit trail feature has been improved to capture changes only when modifications are made to experiments containing a sequence editor (ie. Protein sequence). 
    • A new error message will appear if a product is registered to RegMol into a Project that does not exist. "Project code XXX not found in RegMol. Please ensure that the project code is correct or create the project in RegMol if it does not exist." 
    • The ability for users to use the characters “>” and “<” in the Notes fields of experimental templates is added. 
    • Users are now able to access and download file attachments in an experiment form via an API.
       

    Single-Step Reaction

    • Instead of being populated with the default value of 0, the theory amount will remain blank until the appropriate fields are filled.
    • The form is updated to hide the following tables by default: Request Details, Project Information, Analytical Samples, Analytical Results, Operations and Reference.
    • The Reaction Details table is updated to hide the Main Yield, Recommendation and Compound Row as well as making Outcome as a non-mandatory field by default. 
    • In the Reagents table, the Common Reagent button is now hidden by default.
    • A reagent’s density will appear in the Reagents table as it is displayed in the ReagentDB.
    • When ELN is integrated with Inventory, a “Check Availability” button is added in the Reactants table to allow the user to select a reactant from Inventory. 
    • Results are now displayed in standard scientific notation when a number is small eg. picomoles.
      • A new option is available for tables to be displayed in a pivoted manner in an experiment form so as to show more information in the table without having to scroll left and right. 
    • Users with the Biology role will no longer be able to populate structures into ELN by default. 
    • After registering a product to RegMol, the hyperlink of the Reg. No will open RegMol in a new tab.

    Flex Form

    • In the append field drop-down:
      • Outdated form fields have been removed
      • Some existing form fields have been renamed. 

    ADC form

    • “MW (Measured Avg)” field is added.

    Dose Response form

    • In the Results Curve View Raw Assay Data pop-up window Raw Assay Data is now displayed in the Data tab and the curve specifications are displayed in the General tab.
       

    In the Assay Protocol field, a dropdown list will appear when the user starts to type the name of the assay.

    • Data can now be entered in the Results table of the ELN form to protocol columns pulled from RegMol that are type “float”.
       
    • A new simplified Dose-Response Assay Plate template is available.
      • This form has been streamlined to improve user experience.
         
    • New Unpublish button added to the Dose Response form Results table to roll back data results from RegMol.
    • Improved readability of curve visualizations:
      • Show Text option added to toggle the display of IC50, hillslope and R2 when overlaying curves.
      • The legend placement can be added to the top of the curves with a configuration.

    LNP form

    • This version includes templates for designing both empty and nucleic acid-loaded lipid nanoparticles, each with two calculation approaches that vary based on user input. The forms support nanoparticle designs containing one or two ionizable lipids. When integrated with RegMol, the ELN allows users to pull component information directly from RegMol and register LNPs seamlessly from within the ELN. Users can also submit characterization and stability data from ELN experiments into RegMol. Additionally, integration with the inventory allows for container creation and automatic container usage updates directly within the ELN experiment. 

    New Conjugation form

    • The new conjugation form feature allows building ADCs and populating a relationships table in ELN.
       
    • A New Analytical Results table was added named “Analytical Characterization” that can be used to push data to RegMol.
       
    • Changing the unit of concentration will automatically recalculate and update the volume of an entity in a table.

    Formulation forms
     

    • This version includes three templates for the purpose of Formulation studies. The forms support Recipe creation, Batch creation and Analytical study of Formulations. When integrated with RegMol and Inventory, the ELN allows users to register Recipes directly to RegMol and pull that information back into ELN when creating a batch. The Formulation Analytical template can also be connected to RegMol through its Protocol feature. Additionally, containers from Inventory can be selected for Batch creation and new containers can be registered to Inventory straight from ELN. All these templates also work without integrating with Inventory and RegMol.

    Co-Author

    • The dialogue box “Drop changes, and reload it?” is removed after the user clicks on the Co-Author Finish Editing button.
       
    • If an experiment has been closed, the co-author does not need to review and sign the experiment page. It will no longer appear under their tasks.

    Witnessing

    • If a closed experiment has been assigned to more than one user, an admin can replace one of the witnesses with a different user.
       

    Audit Trail

    • Users can now select two different versions of the audit trail to compare. This feature is in beta and not fully functional. It is being refined and included for visibility, with updates planned in future releases.

    Report

    • A reporting feature has been added under the Admin menu, enabling admin users to create detailed reports of user activity based on various categories such as User, Site, Project, Account, Direct Manager, Top Manager, Form type, and Department. Admins can generate reports for different accounts and specific dates or time periods. The reports can be downloaded as .csv files and include information on open, closed, witnessed, and voided experiments by category, along with the associated experiment list. Additionally, the reporting feature allows admins to display selected information in a bar chart format.
       

    PDF and Word Rendering
     

    • The table rendering of experiments in PDF downloads has been improved.
    • The format of a table in the Free Form will remain consistent when downloading the form as a PDF. 

    Search

    • Users are now able to search for text in files embedded within experiments. 
    • Users are now able to filter for Bio Tags, such as Species and Study, in the Main List  Search results. 

    Security and Access

    • Users are no longer able to move a notebook to a Project that the Notebook’s author does not have access to. 

    UI/UX

    • The X button to close an experiment tab has been centered. 
    • Dropdown boxes are no longer limited by the size of the pop-up window they are in and will extend past it if appropriate, the scroll bar is now associated with the dropdown box rather than the pop-up window. 
    • Template dialogue box’s width will auto adjust to window size.
    • Team Discussion section heading in experiment forms is now displayed in bold. 
    • Users are now able to edit the material table in full screen in ELN templates. 
    • On Experiment forms, the "Manage Files" tooltip is changed to "Manage Attachments". 
    • When creating a new experiment, in the New Entity window, the user can now press enter on their keyboard to trigger the creation of the experiment.