Symyx Technologies has announced the release of the Symyx Isentris Personal Edition scientific software.
Isentris Personal Edition replaces Isis/Base, Isis for Excel, and Isis/Draw, and is designed for small to mid-size research-and-development organisations and for individuals.
The company said the software brings advanced scientific information management, exploration, and sharing capabilities to scientists without requiring an enterprise deployment.
It added that Isentris Personal Edition surpasses Isis in meeting scientists' requirements for storing, searching, viewing, and sharing personal experimental results while still providing the functionality of an enterprise scientific informatics system.
A fully functional free trial of Isentris Personal Edition software is available for a no-charge 30-day trial.
Isentris Personal Edition includes the following components: Symyx Isentris, Symyx Draw and Isentris for Excel.
Symyx Isentris enables users to browse, collate, report, and share data in an efficient manner.
Symyx Draw allows scientists to draw and edit complex molecules, chemical reactions, polymers, non-specific mixtures, formulations, and biologics with ease.
The result is more effective and collaborative searching, viewing, communicating, and archiving of scientific information.
Using the improved Isentris for Excel component of Isentris Personal Edition, scientists can manage, explore, and share chemical and biological information in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that maintain the integrity of chemical structures and reaction information.
Researchers can use Excel to sort, filter, analyse, and visualise scientific data and then share their Excel spreadsheets with colleagues and partners.
Advanced features enable scientists to enumerate virtual compound libraries, analyse the effects of substituents on biological activities, and search chemical spreadsheets using structure searching and filtering techniques.
Powered by Symyx's chemistry engine and Microsoft's SQL Server Express database engine, Isentris Personal Edition matches the Isentris enterprise system feature for feature.
These engines enable Isentris Personal Edition to provide functionality and features typically only provided by larger systems requiring extensive administrative support.
Features such as re-useable search strategies, dynamic SAR tables, full molecule and reaction searching, and extensive reporting to HTML, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Powerpoint software make Isentris Personal Edition a natural successor to Isis/Desktop.
