What's New in Spectrus DB

Previous Software Versions

• Version 2018

  General

  • Electronic signatures supporting GxP validated workflows-easily build multi-level hierarchy using the 'Required Existing Signatures'.
  • UTF8 CSV formatting for export

  Security and Measuring Performance

  • The SpectrusDB client and server now supports IP6 protocol
  • Improved security between the Spectrus DB client and Spectrus DB Enterprise server- connection from clients is denied in the absence of traffic encryption
  • Capability to define Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connection string for Postgres DB server
  • Integrated benchmark tool for monitoring of Spectrus DB client-server communication performance

  Integration and Scripting

  • Easily access Spectrus DB functionality via pop-up forms from within third-party applications, using a command line parameter
  • Execute server side scripts with Spectrus DB Web API

  Performance Enhancements

  • Faster indexing and searching of NMR and Mass spectra in Spectrus DB Enterprise server
  • Faster loading of spectra (.txt and JCAMP file formats) from the database (Spectrus DB Web API)

• Version 2017

  Client side

  Visualization

  • NMR record sets are labelled by 2D technique in the Record Tree subwindow
  • Support for standard one-letter and three-letter peptide sequence codes
  • Specify table row height in tables (through the 'Setup Table' dialog box)
  • Improved support for high resolution program icons on 4K monitors

  Databasing

  • Sequential reaction schemes (drawn in several lines in ChemSketch) may be combined to an overall scheme in a record
  • Redundant reaction arrows in multi-line schemes are recognized correctly
  • The 'SDfile Field with Record ID' field is available in the Export/Import dialog box
  • The term 'project' is replaced with 'record set' for remote Spectrus DB databases
  • Sort values, specific to the root-level structure, in Table view mode

  Search

  • Improved NMR spectral search options—support for 'Approximate Mode' and 'Search Empty Regions' from the Processor window

  Screen and dialog forms

  • Display data from a user table into individual boxes in user-defined screen forms
  • Define the number of decimal places and the scientific format for numeric data in the 'Edit Column Settings' dialog box

  Server side

  • Capability to implement more than one LDAP server
  • Addition of the 'Roles' panel to the Console