The Hitachi Software MiraiBio Group Blog

Congratulations to James Galen and Jessica Min for winning the Top Feedback contest for $25 Amazon.com gift certificates. We value our user’s input as it helps make the application better for everyone.

New this week:

1. You can now share sequences with colleagues via the new Friend’s Sequences tab. This will allow you to easily view or copy any sequence from anyone in your friends list.

2. Do you need to export your sequences? A new feature has been added that will export your sequences in FASTA format. If you have multiple sequences selected, they will all be in a single file in multi-FASTA format.

The Top Feedback contest is still going so please take a minute or two and tell us about your experience with SmartNote.

New this week:

1. You can now export individual results (summaries or raw) from your lab notebook as PDF files or print them out.

2. The PrimerX tool has been added to support primer design for mutagenesis. It even works with multiple sequences!

3. You can now extract email addresses from your GMail or Yahoo mail accounts to make it easier to invite your colleagues to collaborate with you through DNASIS SmartNote.

4. If you find yourself using the same tools frequently, you’ll love this feature: when it’s time to pick a tool for an analysis, you can now see the 5 most recently used tools listed at the very top and just click them to quickly launch the analysis.

Coming soon… an exciting new way to share data with colleagues!

Collaboration is fundamental to life science research. Publications, conferences and lab meetings have their place, but most scientists would benefit from more granular collaboration with a wider audience. That’s why we’ve added a blog to SmartNote - to foster a community of users who help each other get the most out of SmartNote and discuss ideas that can help their research.

Use this blog to post:

• protocols and get help troubleshooting your experiments
• experiment results from your lab notebook that you want to share and invite others to comment on- relevant events, shows and conferences
• hot topics in life science research- job postings
• ideas for how to improve SmartNote
• anything else of potential interest to the community of SmartNote users

Then, invite your colleagues to read and comment on your posts. The most popular posts will automatically be listed on this page, so you can easily access the information that others find most useful or interesting.So go ahead and get started!