Next-Gen Life Science Data Analysis Software

The new release of Insight and Insight for Excel enhance scientific data analysis with important new capabilities, including the ability to run database searches directly from the familiar Microsoft Excel spreadsheet environment. The web-based Insight, a life science, discovery and innovation support environment, speeds decisions by simplifying access to complex hierarchical data and implementing data-rich tooltips for scatterplots. The two releases continue the rapid evolution of next-generation solutions for interactively searching, browsing and visualizing data within the Cheminformatics Suite, helping networked life science discovery teams bring innovative therapeutics to market faster and more cost effectively. Both products leverage the open, scientifically aware Enterprise Platform, which provides a single consistent way for applications to access both internal data and public data accessible via web services. The latest release of Insight for Excel accelerates data analysis with the ability to run database searches from a Microsoft Excel workbook. Medicinal chemists can access rich and diverse corporate and public data sources directly from Excel spreadsheets and import refined search results back into the spreadsheets without leaving the familiar Excel environment. Scientists engaged in pharmacokinetics research can now calculate absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity (ADMET) chemistry properties for chemical structures loaded into an Excel spreadsheet. The new calculators for blood brain barrier penetration, human intestinal absorption, aqueous solubility, plasma protein binding and hepatotoxicity provide more information to make decisions about the appropriateness of compounds. Finally, new chemical-name-from-structure and structure-from-chemical-name calculators make it easier for scientists to connect associated data items. The latest release of Insight speeds informed decisions by providing scalable access to complex hierarchical data and improved support for data analysis and visualization. These capabilities are provided through a set of new and enhanced Pipeline Pilot components that protocol authors can use to simplify the processes used by end-user scientists to access, chart and perform calculations on hierarchical data.  The Pipeline Pilot protocol authoring application enables developers to tailor scientific calculations, visualizations, exports and reports targeted to specific needs and expertise within the Insight environment. The latest release of Insight also enables the creation of data-rich tooltips that automatically display chemical properties and structures in X-Y scatterplots if molecular data are loaded in Insight, providing ready access to rich data objects. Insight for Excel is the next generation of scientific Excel add-ins within the legacy ISIS, Isentris and Accord product suites. Insight is the next-generation solution for current ISIS, Isentris and Accord applications for searching, browsing and visualizing data.

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