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:

• Cohort management
• Improvements to the work request, budgeting, and training records systems
• Weight functionality for pups
• Cage map improvements, includes the ability to swap cages, highlight cages with sick animals or in open work requests

PyRAT Aquatic 1.3:

• Full license management system
• Tank map improvements, includes the ability to swap tanks, highlight tanks in open work requests

PyRAT Transgenic edition:

• Extended transfer report

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.