CDD Vault Update (August 2024): Inventory Search Highlighting, Updated Plots, Plot Comments, Parser API, Support AI ChatBot

Inventory Search Interface: 

The new CDD Vault Inventory tab can be enabled by the CDD Support Team. If you wish to enable this tab in your Vault please have your vault administrator contact support@collaborativedrug.com.

Use the Inventory tab to search and filter samples and events by keywords. Values used in the search query will be bolded in the results. For example, searching for “Box 2” yields 4 resulting samples and “Box 2” is highlighted in bold.

Updated Plots: 

The previous feature release included the ability to use the Bell Equation when creating plot readout definitions. You can display plot images of bell-shaped curves in the search report table. Click on a curve to edit the plot and flag outliers as needed.

Plot images in the search report table have gotten a new look and feel as well with a bolder axis and higher resolution. These style updates will soon apply to exports as well.  

Plot Comments:

This new feature is associated with our Curves Add-on. If you are not yet subscribed to Curves, please contact your CDD Vault account manager or the CDD Vault Support Team to discuss enabling these features in your Vault.

Vault administrators can create a list of pre-approved values to use for commentary under the Settings>Vault>Plot subtab. Once the list of values is created, users can choose one or more values from the list and save their changes.

Parser API:

Access custom data parsers via the API.

• Slurps parameter: custom_parser, accepts id (integer), string (name) or an object (full definition)
  
  • API call:
    POST https://app.collaborativedrug.com/api/v1/vaults/<vault_id>/slurps
  • JSON example:
    {
"project": "BioTech Collaborator",
"autoreject": "true",
"custom_parser": "CRC FollowUp",
"mapping_template":"DR with CellLine",
"runs":[{"run_date":"2024-08-09","place":"API", "person":"Dr API"}]
}
  • Example results:
    {
    "id": 2245079,
    "class": "slurp",
    "created_at": "2024-08-09T14:22:53.000Z",
    "modified_at": "2024-08-09T14:22:53.000Z",
    "state": "queued_for_processing",
    "api_url": "https://app.collaborativedrug.com/api/v1/vaults/<vault_id>/slurps/<slurp_id>",
    "queued_job_position": 2,
    "queued_slurp_position": 1
}
• New endpoint to retrieve parsers: GET/import_parsers
  • Retrieves: id, name, created_at, modified_at, owner
    GET https://app.collaborativedrug.com/api/v1/vaults/<vault_id>/import_parsers

{
    "count": 2,
    "objects": [
        {
            "id": 239,
            "name": "Dose response_two plates",
            "created_at": "2024-08-01T08:33:38.551Z",
            "modified_at": "2024-08-01T08:33:38.551Z",
            "owner": "Emilia Hietala"
        },
        {
            "id": 123,
            "name": "Dose response_one plate",
            "created_at": "2024-05-31T11:23:38.598Z",
            "modified_at": "2024-05-31T11:23:38.598Z",
            "owner": "Emilia Hietala"
        }
    ]
}

Support AI ChatBot:

When logging in to CDD Vault, look for the new CDD AI Support ChatBot in the top-right corner of the application. This chat tool is trained on the CDD Vault documentation and provides immediate responses to basic support inquiries. CDD's dedicated human support team is always available for the cases where a quick answer from an LLM isn’t sufficient. 

This blog is authored by members of the CDD Vault community. CDD Vault is a hosted drug discovery informatics platform that securely manages both private and external biological and chemical data. It provides core functionality including chemical registration, data visualization, inventory, and electronic lab notebook capabilities.