Release Notes

Biologit MLM-AI Release Notes

MLM-AI 1.1.43.5 (23-JUN-2025)

🎉New Features

  • Batch review submission: Users can now conveniently submit on-demand reviews for multiple monitors simultaneously, saving time on routine process for large portfolios.

  • Batch monitor update: This useful feature will allow users to update monitor definitions "in batch", making it easier and less error prone to maintain large collections of monitors

MLM-AI 1.1.43.4 (17-JUN-2025)

Fixes

  • Full text translations: Articles from the Biologit local literature data source would not allow requests for PDF translations

  • Decision override option: unable to save a decision override when custom annotations are configured in Monitor

  • Find Articles: added validation of review status selections (at least one required)

MLM-AI 1.1.42.4 (05-JUN-2025)

🎉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.

Self-Assignment of Articles - When work assignment is enabled, users can optionally self-assign related citations to themselves, completing the assessment faster.

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

MLM-AI 1.1.42.2 (23-MAY-2025)

Enhancements

  • New source: Scielo Spain has been added to available sources in the Biologit Database

    • Data start date is 01-JAN-2025

Fixes

  • 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. (more about duplicate detection)

MLM-AI 1.1.42.1 (16-MAY-2025)

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

MLM-AI 1.1.41.6 (25-APR-2025)

Enhancements

  • Incremental loading of attachments: Large attachment files are now rendered incrementally, and users can start reviewing the article as soon as initial pages are retrieved

  • Customizable sampling rates: Users can now specify sampling rates directly in the sampling drop down when selecting articles for review or QC:

  • Search by annotations, exclusions and special situations: from Reviews or Find Articles pages it is now possible to search results matching specific annotations, exclusions or special situations. The + icon on the search bar expands to additional search criteria.

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

MLM-AI 1.1.41.1 (08-APR-2025)

Enhanced Review Dashboard

We have updated the Summary View Dashboard with table view, downloadable option and a new "Days Open" chart to help prioritize in-progress reviews according to number of days open.

Fixes

  • Users unable to remove certain attachments in the Attachments tab

MLM-AI 1.1.40.5 (27-MAR-2025)

Improved usability of Attachments

  • Attachments tab now consolidate each upload, rendered status and translation into a single view for easy reference

  • Each attached file or translation will only download on click, thus preventing high network usage in case of multiple attached files.

MLM-AI 1.1.40.4 (22-MAR-2025)

🎉 New Features

  • Annotation Validations: 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.

  • Categories Filtering: Similarly, decisions can determine what categories user can select, reducing the chance of data entry mistakes

Enhancements

  • The Article Detail info panel has been redesigned to better fit screens of all sizes:

MLM-AI 1.1.40.1 (14-MAR-2025)

🎉 Enhancements

  • Performance improvements on Login, Article navigation and Find Articles 🚀

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)

MLM-AI 1.1.39.2 (04-MAR-2025)

🎉 Enhancements

  • Performance improvements on Article navigation and Find Reviews 🚀

  • Reports: Report submission now allows the selection of multiple monitors

  • Reports: Can now send report output to designated emails, per Settings

  • QC Sampling rate: new 5% sampling rate option now available

Fixes

  • Article Search now supports running large query strings (previously failing with "Bad Request")

MLM-AI 1.1.39.1 (15-FEB-2025)

🎉Enhancement: Alternative PDF view

  • Files requiring rotation can be visualized using the default browser viewer, by clicking the PDFicon:

🎉Enhancement: Assign articles from the detail screen

  • 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

MLM-AI 1.1.38.2 (03-FEB-2025)

🎉 New Feature - Extra Annotations: 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 Security Settings.

MLM-AI 1.1.38.1 (22-JAN-2025)

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)

MLM-AI 1.1.37.3 (09-JAN-2025)

🎉 New Feature: Track Day Zero per Article

  • It is now possible to track regulatory "day zero" (day information became available for assessment) per article. Learn more in: Enable Day Zero per Article

Fixes

  • Monitor export/import functionality not importing across environments

  • Article lock icon sometimes not showing user details (locking still works as expected)

MLM-AI 1.1.35.3 (22-OCT-2024)

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

MLM-AI 1.1.34.2 (04-OCT-2024)

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

🎉 Enhancement: See Additional Citation Columns in Batch Review

From the Batch Review screen users can choose additional fields corresponding to other citation details like journal, publication dates, etc:

MLM-AI 1.1.33.2 (19-SEP-2024)

🎉 New Feature: Source Filters

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 Source Filters.

MLM-AI 1.1.32.3 (29-JUL-2024)

🎉 New feature: Decision Rules - 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.

🎉 New feature: Related Articles - Biologit MLM-AI helps streamline assessments by identifying related articles that appear in multiple monitor results, preventing duplicate work and improving assessment quality.

Other Enhancements

  • Fix: faster rendering of uploaded PDF articles

MLM-AI 1.1.32.1 (11-JUL-2024)

  • Fix: Performance issue when clicking the "Processing" tab in the Reviews summary page.

MLM-AI 1.1.31.1 (13-JUN-2024)

🎉 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 Settings 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.

MLM-AI 1.1.30.2 (21-MAY-2024)

🎉Enhancement: Article Search Advanced Features

The Article Search page now includes a number of enhancements:

  • 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

MLM-AI 1.1.29.3 (16-APR-2024)

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

  • Enhancement: the Reports module now contains new tabs to prevent clutter of old report runs.

    • 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

MLM-AI 1.1.29.2 (05-APR-2024)

🎉E2B R3 Now Available

Biologit MLM-AI has extended support of E2B XML exports to include the R3 version of the specification, ensuring smoother integration with systems that require this version of the E2B spec.

Learn more in the E2B Configuration Guide.

🎉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:

MLM-AI 1.1.27.3 (01-MAR-2024)

🎉New Database: MEDES

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, create a new monitor or update an already existing one to include MEDES into a list of sources:

While using Article Search, just make sure the checkbox located near MEDES label is selected:

MLM-AI 1.1.27.1 (15-FEB-2024)

Find Articles ➡️ Batch Review

With the Find Articles 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 batch mode. This is useful for consolidating review or QC activities in a single operation.

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).

MLM-AI 1.1.25.3 (11-JAN-2024)

🎉New Feature: Dashboards (beta)

Accessible from the menu on the left, dashboards 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.

Additional visualizations coming soon, let us know your feedback!

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