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This add-in integrates public life science data directly into Microsoft Excel. It provides nearly 50 functions to access data and services from multiple chemistry and pharmacology repositories.
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  • Pros

    • Integrates directly within Microsoft Excel
    • Provides nearly 50 data-aware functions
    • Connects to ten public life science repositories
    • Platform supports extensibility with custom plugins
    • Works with other interfaces like Spotfire and OneNote
  • Cons

    • Functionality is limited to the Community Edition
    • Focused on chemistry and pharmacology domains
    • Access is limited to public data repositories
    • Extensibility requires contacting the vendor
    • Does not support writing data back to sources

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Latest update
Version
3.0.3.0
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Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 8
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 7
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117
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Developer’s Description

Expose disparate public life science data and data services directly within Microsoft Excel.
The Helium for Excel Community Edition showcases Helium's power in the chemistry and pharmacology domains. It provides nearly 50 functions that connect to several public repositories and allow you to consume the data and analytical services in those repositories -- all in a data-type context and all directly within Excel. Sources include: ChEBI, ChemBank, ChEMBL, ChemSpider, ClinicalTrials.gov, KEGG, Open PHACTS, Protein Data Bank, PubChem, and PubMed.

If you like what you see, contact the Ceiba Helium team to learn how this platform can give you and your school or organization a new-found power to easily access, relate, and use your data. Helium is extensible across life science domains and beyond: new data source plugins, data-typing logic, and functions are easily added -- build your own, or we'll help you; Helium can work within Microsoft Excel, Spotfire, Microsoft OneNote, and other popular user interfaces; additional functionality enables rich data orchestration among data sources, user interfaces, workflow systems, and data management systems to make a complete analytical workbench.


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