We will be attending the following events to demonstrate our PyRAT products. Feel free to come by our booth to learn more.
Event | Date | Venue | Link |
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AFSTAL ComTech 2024 (online) | January 25, 2024 | Paris, France | More information |
IAT Congress 2024 (online) | March 12-15, 2024 | UK | More information |
IGTP Fortbildung | April 10-11, 2024 | Jena, Germany | More information |
Scand-LAS 2024 | May 21-24, 2024 | Tampere, Finland | More information |
AFSTAL 2024 | June 12-14, 2024 | Lille, France | More information |
ESLAV-ECLAM-AAALAC | June 17-18, 2024 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | More information |
GV-SOLAS 2024 | September 11-13, 2024 | Würzburg, Germany | More information |
We will be attending the following events to present our work regarding scientific computing.
Event | Date | Venue | Link |
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There are no upcoming events planned at this time |
Today we are proud to announce the general availability of version 5.0.0 for all PyRAT products.
This release is a monumental step towards a new and improved PyRAT experience. Most noticeable are the changes to the interface. As some may recall, PyRAT version 1.0 came out in 2003, just over 20 years ago! Over the years, more features were added and the look updated over time, but the general layout remained the same.
Until now.
We asked ourselves, “If we were to recreate PyRAT today with all of its current functionality, what would that look like?”
And then we built it:
Below the surface, we have also made massive changes:
In addition to these changes, we still managed to implement user requests in PyRAT, PyRAT Transgenic, and PyRAT Aquatic such as:
Current customers who want to learn more or are interested in an update, feel free to contact your PyRAT customer representative.
For anyone who has not yet experienced PyRAT, now is a good time.
Click here to contact us for an obligation free demo installation.
As part of our commitment to quality, we use an ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS), which provides controlled processes for how we do our work. We are very happy to announce that our QMS has undergone a thorough audit and has consequently been re-certified for another 3 years!
A big thanks goes out to those in Scionics who worked hard to make this happen.
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For the last few weeks we have been rolling out PyRAT 4.6.1 with great success and are now announcing it is generally available to all clients. The latest PyRAT Transgenic and PyRAT Aquatic are also ready, with Aquatic in particular seeing some important and useful additions and refinements.
If you are a current customer and have not been updated recently or are excited to try the latest version, please contact your customer representative and ask for an update. For anyone who would like a demo installation to try out any of our PyRAT products, please click here to contact us.
Here is a very brief summary of some of the improvements we have made in the new releases:
PyRAT and PyRAT Transgenic 4.6.1:We are now announcing the general release of the latest version of our PyRAT products. The first clients were installed in December with much success. These releases contain new features and tweaks as requested by our user base.
If you are a current customer and have not yet been updated, feel free to contact your customer representative and ask for an update. For anyone who would like a demo installation to try out any of our PyRAT products, please click here to contact us.
Here is a very brief summary of some of the improvements we have made in the new releases:
PyRAT and PyRAT Transgenic 4.6:We are pleased to announce the latest release of our PyRAT products.
As usual, this release contains numerous new features and enhancements. Thanks to all of our customers for providing feedback and helping to make PyRAT better for everyone.
Here are a few of the improvements in the new release:
PyRAT 4.5.1:If you are a current customer and have not yet been updated, please feel free to contact us to schedule an update.
For anyone who would like a demo installation to try out any of our PyRAT products, please click here to contact us.
We are proud to announce new version releases for our PyRAT line of products, which we are now rolling out to clients. This is our second major release this year, with our previous occurring in February. These releases contain the most requested new features, tweaks, and optimisations.
If you are a current customer and have not yet been updated, feel free to contact your customer representative and ask for an update. For anyone who would like a demo installation to try out any of our PyRAT products, please click here to contact us.
Here is a brief summary of some of the improvements we have made in the new releases:
PyRAT 4.5:In February, we started rolling out the latest releases of our PyRAT products. As usual, the new versions incorporate features and improvements suggested by our clients, and those changes were developed in accordance to our ISO 9001:2015 certified Quality Management System (QMS).
While the number of additions and improvements greatly exceeds this list, here is a brief summary of what we managed to accomplish since our last release in September:
PyRAT 4.4.1:
As always, if you are a current customer, feel free to contact your customer
representative and ask for an update. For anyone who would like a demo installation
to try out any of our PyRAT products, please click
here to contact us.
As part of our commitment to quality, we use an ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS), which provides controlled processes for how we do our work. We are very happy to announce that our QMS has undergone a thorough audit and has consequently been re-certified for another 3 years!
A big thanks goes out to those in Scionics who worked hard to make this happen, particularly during this ongoing pandemic.
Click here to learn more
As per our usual rigorous release cycle, we have another round of products available. Many thanks to our clients for their feedback. Keep it coming!
Here is a very brief summary of the new features available:
PyRAT 4.4:
As always, if you are a current customer, feel free to contact your customer
representative and ask for an update. For anyone who would like a demo installation
to try out any of our PyRAT products, please click
here to contact us.
While it’s true we have avoided the office since mid-March, we have all been diligently working from home. The result has been the release in May of new versions of PyRAT, PyRAT Aquatic, and PyRAT Transgenic edition. For these releases, we moved the entire code base forward from Python 2 to Python 3, which was quite a challenge. It required a significant code rewrite but resulted in a modernized product codebase.
Thanks to careful planning and testing by our team and in accordance with the SOPs in our ISO 9001 certified Quality Management System, we can proudly say that we have not experienced any major problems since the changeover. In fact, many of our clients, some of them large research institutions with hundreds of users, have been using the system for weeks now. On top of this success, we met our goal of finishing this release in Spring.
Besides the Python code migration, we have added a number of new features to our PyRAT products. A very brief summary of some of those can be found below:
PyRAT 4.3:
As always, if you are a current customer, feel free to contact your customer
representative and ask for an update. For anyone who would like a demo installation
to try out any of our PyRAT products, please click
here to contact us.
As the world knows, everyday life has changed since the advent of the Covid-19 virus, and that has also been true for those of us at Scionics. We thought it a good idea to give an update on what we have been doing since this epidemic started affecting all of our lives.
Scionics made the decision, as of mid-March, to send all employees into home office. As we had flexible communication and management systems in place, technologically this was an easy transition. More difficult was adjusting our work habits and practices. Without a shared hallway to walk through or a coffee machine to gather around for impromptu meetings, people have had to be more pro-active and organized about information exchange. Psychologically it is also clear that we miss brainstorming ideas with each other or talking about current events over lunch. We definitely miss each other’s company. Like many, we’ve found that chat systems, videoconferencing, and telephone calls are, in some cases, a poor substitute for seeing your colleagues.
We’ve had the good fortune that no one has been ill and, in fact, working from home has been highly effective. We have made some very large strides in the last few months with our latest PyRAT products release. It’s a big one, and everything went as planned.
In addition, we are hiring! Please see our jobs page for more information.
We would like to thank those who’ve worked on the front lines in regards to this
illness - all of the doctors, nurses, and various other health practitioners.
Your dedication has kept this virus under control and we are in your debt. For our
part, Scionics hopes that our efforts to support biomedical science with IT solutions
aids in the understanding of biological systems and the discovery of cures and
therapies for this and other diseases.
We're very pleased to announce the v4.2 release of PyRAT! This version not only includes many refinements, but also new features, such as:
The new version is now available. Please feel free to contact us
for an update or, if you don't know PyRAT yet,
for access to a demo installation.
Good news, PyRAT version 4.1 is finally here! This version includes a large number of small tweaks as per our user feedback, but the largest new features include:
Please feel free to contact us for more information.
We are pleased to announce the release of v1.1 of PyRAT Aquatic, our software for the management of fish colonies. The initial release provided us with valuable feedback (thank you!), which we incorporated into our plan for this version. With this release, we not only refine many of the previous features, but we also add some new ones, including:
We are proud to announce the release of PyRAT Aquatic, our new software product designed for managing fish and other tank-based colonies. PyRAT Aquatic has many of the same features as PyRAT for terrestrial animals, but redesigned for fish facility workflows and biology.
This product was made using the same ISO 9001:2015 certified Quality Management System as PyRAT.
After years of evolving and improving our product development and related processes, we decided to go the distance and prepare for ISO certification. With the guidance of an ISO 9001 expert, we improved our quality management system to the point that we thought it could pass an official ISO certification evaluation.
Well, now it is official! We are ISO 9001:2015 certified!
This certification is one more example of our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.
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We have been working hard on this release all year, and it is a big update. Many thanks to everyone at Scionics who made this release possible.
Any clients who do not yet have this release should contact us for an update.
A very limited selection of the new features are listed below: