 BioViz/Office
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The bio visualization add-on to ChemFinder allows you to create graphical representations of
ChemFinder databases in order to identify trends and correlations within subsets of your data.
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| Drawing Elements / BioDraw
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BioDraw makes it easy to draw high-quality pathways. Built-in shapes include: Enzymes, Receptors, 7-Helix Proteins, Ion Channels, Immunoglobins, Membranes (lines, arcs and ovals), DNA, Endoplasmic reticula, G-Proteins, Golgi bodies, Mitochondria, Small molecules, Reaction arrows, and more. You can also insert your own shapes, such as chemical structures from ChemDraw, crystallographic structures from PDB, etc.
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| Sharing Data / BioDraw |
BioDraw pathways and annotation data are sharable with other researchers using BioDraw or the free Paracel BioDraw Reader. Anyone can download the free BioDraw Reader and view your pathways. Either send your colleagues the BioDraw file, or put it on your web site for them to download. Copy/Paste BioDraw drawings into PowerPoint presentations or Word documents or save pathways as TIFF for inclusion in major journals.
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| Annotations / BioDraw |
Store annotations for each element in your drawing. Annotation data ranges from manually
entered text to attached documents, literature references, or links.
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| Flexible Assay Management / BioAssay |
Even for the most basic protein assays, the independent and dependent variables used by the biologist to quantify efficacy can vary substantially from assay to assay. The underlying requirement that follows from this variability is for a flexible data management system that can adapt quickly to different assays and biological models. With BioAssay, researchers or IT support staff simply define the observables and calculations that make up the assay. The database does the rest. Users can set up unlimited levels of drill-down.
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| User Friendly Data Retrieval & Analysis / BioAssay |
This allows users, for example, to click an IC50 and see a graph of percent inhibition versus concentration. Click again, and the software displays the original triplicate results, with outliers marked. The software even supports complex in vivo models.
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| Automated Calculations & Curve Fitting / BioAssay |
Once the database is configured for an assay, calculations are performed automatically whenever new data is entered or imported. Calculations can be quite complex, built from multi-step procedures. For an IC50 assay in triplicate, the software can average your triplicate results, take control values into account, and perform a sigmoidal dose-response curve fit according to your specifications. It is now as easy to do for 10,000 compounds as it is for ten. |
| Find Structure-Activity Relationships / BioAssay |
Components of the ChemOffice product line provide additional ways to analyze structural and biological data and perform structure searches. ChemFinder makes it easy to create customized forms for viewing data. Users can export data to Excel or Spotfire for further analysis and reporting. |
