Biology software reduces errors with new spreadsheet technology

Biology Software that works
Flexible and comprehensive

Introducing Morphit
A New Type Of Spreadsheet Technology

About Us
• Working with spreadsheets since 1989
– Population Dynamics
– Environmental Physics
– Pharmaceutical Research
• Edge founded in 2005
– Guildford c. 20 employees
– Morphit
– BioRails
© The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd 2013

Morphit Vision
Provide a robust templating
environment?

New Spreadsheet Technology
That…
• Reduces error rates through enhanced
worksheet structure
• Reduces validation effort through
field-level formulae
• Supports Data Modeling in a
spreadsheet environment

Causes Of Error
• Positional Referencing
– Physical area related
– Semantic/Extensibility
• Intrinsically due to a lack of structure
in the spreadsheet
• Its all about the ‘cell’

Morphit Features
• Formula Defined at Field level
• Tables composed
– Group Headers (groups of rows)
– Field Headers
• Tables are joined through
– Field borrowing
– Field linking

Readability/Semantics

Spreadsheet Solution
=(E2/D2)*(F2/G2)

Morphit Solution
=('AUCinf PO'/'AUCinf IV')*('Dose IV'/'Dose PO')

Field Level Formula
• Improved readability
• Does not require the explicit definition
of named ranges for each instance of
the input values

Tables
• Hierarchical spreadsheets composed of
– Group Headers
• Hierarchy (Group within Group)
• Size (number of rows)
• Define scope of formulae
– Field Headers
• Cell type (Formula, Chart, Statistic etc.)
• Formula
• Other properties

Tables

Tables - Which Means That…
• Remove ‘Physical area mix up problem’
– Add rows & inherit formula etc.
– Re-order fields
– Not possible to miss-group
• Validation is simpler
– Field level, not cell level
– Spot exceptions

Table Linking
• Most business problems do not resolve
into a single hierarchical tree
– It’s a forest not a tree!
• Database Metaphor
– Tables
– Relationships

Table Linking

Table Linking
• Years – Year based information
– VAT Rate
– Inflation
• Price List – uses Years information
– Inflationary Price Increases to Inventory
• Invoices – uses Price List & Years information
– Sale =Units*'Price List'!Price
– VAT =Years!VAT*Sale

Table Linking
• Access information from another
through a ‘Key’
• Key is from linked field value
– pseudo group
– applies aggregation rules

Linking

Borrowing
• ‘Pull’ entire fields from one table to
another
– Unique values from source field
– Sorted
• Link is established through borrowed
field value

Borrowing

Benefits?
• Error minimization
• Simplify validation
• Data Modeling
– Improved comprehensibility
– Increased Re-use
• Increased Productivity
• Faster Implementation
• Lower maintenance burden

Questions
http://www.edge-ka.com/products/morphit

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