Release Notes
Biologit MLM-AI Release Notes
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Biologit MLM-AI Release Notes
Last updated
🎉New Features
Partial translation requests - for large documents it is now possible to request a page range for translation, facilitating assessments and managing translation costs.
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Self-Assignment of Articles - When work assignment is enabled, users can optionally self-assign related citations to themselves, completing the assessment faster.
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Enhancements
Database selection widget updated in Article Search including database categories and "select all" options
Fixes
In some cases the E2B "Excel" file generated in the Zip export option would not correctly fill in target and concomitant products
Enhancements
New source: Scielo Spain has been added to available sources in the Biologit Database
Data start date is 01-JAN-2025
Fixes
Enhancements
Performance improvements: this release includes general performance enhancements when navigating Review Details, Find Articles and Monitors
E2B (Excel) download: Date of Latest Information now included in E2B Excel file contained in zip folder
Fixes
Zip download extraction error when including very large file names
Enhancements
Customizable sampling rates: Users can now specify sampling rates directly in the sampling drop down when selecting articles for review or QC:
Fixes
Dashboards: clearer color scheme in Summary dashboard, include monitor name in downloaded chart for Result Trends
In rare cases user may lose a locked article while on screen, lock re-acquisition timing has been adjusted
Day zero resetting option limits date selection to up to today's date
Enhanced Review Dashboard
Fixes
Users unable to remove certain attachments in the Attachments tab
Improved usability of Attachments
Each attached file or translation will only download on click, thus preventing high network usage in case of multiple attached files.
Enhancements
The Article Detail info panel has been redesigned to better fit screens of all sizes:
Fixes
Translations: Several enhancements improving Abstract and Full Text translations; support for translation of PDF's of up to 200 pages
Password auto-lock: admins can immediately unlock accounts with a password reset (skipping lock wait time)
Reports: Report submission now allows the selection of multiple monitors
QC Sampling rate: new 5% sampling rate option now available
Fixes
Files requiring rotation can be visualized using the default browser viewer, by clicking the PDFicon:
Users with work assignment permissions now can assign articles directly from the Article Detail screen
Clicking the assignment icon (top right) will open the asignment dialog
This is a maintenance release introducing the following enhancements
Hide auxiliary tabs: when in Work Assignment mode the number of tabs visible to users by default can be reduced to minimize clutter. This is a system setting under "Advanced Screening"
Fix: on certain cases the a "red" lock could be displayed in Article Detail screen (visual issue only, does not affect locking behavior)
Fixes
Monitor export/import functionality not importing across environments
Article lock icon sometimes not showing user details (locking still works as expected)
This is a maintenance release introducing minor fixes and improvements:
Fix: When creating a copy of a monitor based on a query string, user defined keywords need to be re-defined manually
Fix: Creating a copy of a patient record in the E2B tab may sometimes ignore edited fields
This is a maintenance release introducing minor fixes and enhancements:
Fix: on certain cases a review that retrieved no results would not automatically move from the "In Progress" to "Completed" tab
Fix: Downloading E2B/Zip exports from an article now produces unique file names
Fix: When inspecting a monitor details from the Review tab, it will correctly display ISSN filter information
Fix: Uploads of EMA Excel files
From the Batch Review screen users can choose additional fields corresponding to other citation details like journal, publication dates, etc:
Other Enhancements
Fix: faster rendering of uploaded PDF articles
Fix: Performance issue when clicking the "Processing" tab in the Reviews summary page.
Select the biologit machine translation vendor:
Once enabled, articles with title and abstract not in English will display an option to request a translation:
The Machine Translation feature is free to use during Beta. Please contact support for more details on future translation charges.
🎉Enhancement: Article Search Advanced Features
Query syntax checking as you type
Suggested medication synonyms for expansion
Export results as csv
Compare mode to investigate the effects of adding/removing query terms
Analyze mode to get insights on query hit volume over time
This is a maintenance release covering various small fixes and enhancements:
Fix: monitors are consistently listed in alphabetical order in all drop down selectors (submission, reports, etc)
Fix: Do not show DOI badge in Article Search when citation has no DOI data
Enhancement: validation of email addresses when creating new users
On submission, users can quickly search their results in the "Recent" tab
Users can also search any previously run report in the "Find Reports" tab
🎉E2B R3 Now Available
🎉More space for entering your decision
A new, optional decision window is available for cases where more space is needed to enter screening decisions. This view also shows the complete audit trail of the article as a reference. Users can access it from the pop-up icon from the Article Detail screen:
🎉Making Aggregate Report Submissions Easier!
It is now possible to obtain a MS Word report of selected articles to be used for submissions such as aggregate reporting, CERs and others. From the reports module select the Decisions Summary Report:
The report output is in editable MS-Word containing a citation summary along with assessor review decisions:
🎉New Database: MEDES
Find Articles ➡️ Batch Review
Export Articles as ZIP
A new zip format is available to download from the Article details screen including Article HTML export, all attachments and E2B data (if available).
🎉New Feature: Dashboards (beta)
Additional visualizations coming soon, let us know your feedback!
Duplicate detection by content: on some cases the duplicate engine would ignore certain content-based duplicates, affecting a small fraction of candidate duplicates. This fix enhances detection of duplicates in this scenario. ()
Incremental loading of : Large attachment files are now rendered incrementally, and users can start reviewing the article as soon as initial pages are retrieved
Search by annotations, exclusions and special situations: from Reviews or Find Articles pages it is now possible to search results matching specific , or special situations. The + icon on the search bar expands to additional search criteria.
We have updated the with table view, downloadable option and a new "Days Open" chart to help prioritize in-progress reviews according to number of days open.
tab now consolidate each upload, rendered status and translation into a single view for easy reference
New Features
: This is a new exciting feature where user annotations can be configured as mandatory or disabled depending on assessor decision, enhancing data quality and reducing mistakes.
: Similarly, decisions can determine what categories user can select, reducing the chance of data entry mistakes
Enhancements
Performance improvements on Login, Article navigation and Find Articles
Enhancements
Performance improvements on Article navigation and Find Reviews
Reports: Can now send report output to designated emails, per
now supports running large query strings (previously failing with "Bad Request")
Enhancement: Alternative PDF view
Enhancement: Assign articles from the detail screen
New Feature - : Monitors can be configured with additional fields to help users capture customized data during assessment.
New Feature - Password auto-lock: this functionality prevents account break-in attempts by temporarily locking the account after too many failed logins. This is a system configuration that administrators can setup via the Settings page. Learn more more on .
New Feature:
It is now possible to track regulatory "day zero" (day information became available for assessment) per article. Learn more in:
Enhancement: See Additional Citation Columns in Batch Review
New Feature:
Source filters is a monitor configuration that allows users to exclude "non-relevant" articles from review and focus on screening of "relevant" articles only. Learn more about the feature in .
- Multi-stage workflows can be configured with decision rules to control options available to users at each stage, such as allowing only "Preliminary" decisions initially and "Final" decisions only after preliminary ones are recorded.
- Biologit MLM-AI helps streamline assessments by identifying related articles that appear in multiple monitor results, preventing duplicate work and improving assessment quality.
Automated machine translation of abstracts (in Beta)
We are rolling out support for automatic machine translations as a Beta feature. Users interesting in evaluating machine translation for their workflows can enable the feature from the page.
The page now includes a number of enhancements:
Enhancement: the now contains new tabs to prevent clutter of old report runs.
Biologit MLM-AI has extended support of E2B XML exports to include the of the specification, ensuring smoother integration with systems that require this version of the E2B spec.
Learn more in the .
MEDES has become a new literature source that is being ingested into MLM-AI database. In order to start retrieving articles from a new database in your searches, or update an already existing one to include MEDES into :
While using , just make sure the checkbox located near MEDES label is selected:
With the search, it is possible to search results by monitors, date, assessment decisions or any criteria allowed in the review search box. It is now possible to review results from Find Articles in . This is useful for consolidating review or QC activities in a single operation.
Accessible from the menu on the left, provide a new way to analyze data retrieved and screened inside MLM-AI. They show total daily literature volumes, volumes by tags including case reports, suspected AE special situations, animal/in-vitro and many else.
