Certara.AI Signal is a tool for monitoring trends, identifying market needs, discovering emerging technologies, and streamlining competitor intelligence.

Signal is supported on the following browsers:

· Chrome

· Safari

· Edge

· Firefox

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Once you are added as a user to Signal, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access the application.

If you are sent a registration link, click on the link to navigate to the Registration Page.

1. Enter your Full Name

2. Enter a Username

3. Enter your E-mail address

4. Create a Password that is 8+ characters long

5. Click the box next to “I agree to the Terms of Service”

6. Click on the “Register” button

You may receive an email with a username and a temporary password. Click on the link to navigate to the Sign In page.

a. Enter your Username and temporary password to sign in

b. Reset your password by clicking on “Forgot password?”

a. Enter your email address

b. Click “Reset”

You will receive an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.

Certara.AI Signal is a tool for monitoring trends, identifying market needs, discovering emerging technologies, and streamlining competitor intelligence. You can generate real-time dashboards using Signal's trend analytics and named entity recognition, and gain insights from highly visual charts and graphs. Additionally, Certara.AI offers a reference data fabric add-on, which includes publicly available content from sources such as preprints, PubMed, clinical trials, and more.

The Certara.AI Signal UI is divided into four main sections, each serving a specific function. The left-hand panel is where you can manage the terms you have selected. The top bar is the Title Bar which displays the name of the set that you are working with. In the central section, you can view the results of your search. The right-hand panel enables you to filter the documents, organize and review your favorite documents, and explore concepts in detail.

The left-hand section of Signal is where you will manage terms for your collection. You can add terms, find related terms, rename terms, or delete terms. You can also sort the terms and update the trend view.

The top bar is the "Title Bar" which displays the name of the set that you are working with. You can create, rename, delete, or select a set of terms. You can also navigate to other applications and configure notification settings.

The "Results" section provides the opportunity to review the articles for the terms selected and applied filters. Click to launch the articles in a separate tab, view, analyze, and add terms all within the results section.

Tabs right-hand panel includes a Filters tab that enables you to drill down by Keyword(s), DATA SOURCE, DATE, DOCUMENT TYPE, and ADDED BY. The Favorites tab includes all of the favorited documents. Lastly, the Concept Detail tab enables you to view the trends, related concepts, and documents for a selected term.

Creating sets is an efficient way to organize and manage terms of interest.

You can create a set in one of two ways.

Rename Set

Signal allows for modifications to the terms to achieve desired outcomes. You can review steps on how to create a set in the following article:

"How to Create, Rename, or Delete a Set"

Select a term or multiple terms from a set to limit the documents in the Results section to only the terms of interest.

Here is an example of the results when all terms in this set are selected. By default, all terms are selected.

Here is an example where there are a few terms from the set selected for review.

A "CLEAR SELECTION" option at the top left of the terms allows a quick reset to the default selection of all terms.

Change the display name of a term listed to something else.

Easily delete unwanted terms by clicking "Delete Term". Keep in mind that the term will be immediately removed.

Add a new term by clicking on the plus sign (+), add a term to the Add Terms modal, and then click Add.

Click on a term to launch the Concept popover modal where you can quickly add terms to a set or a new set.

To add trending terms to an existing set, click on the flame icon.

Click on the three vertical dots in the left-hand panel to access the menu to sort terms alphabetically, by usage, or trend.

The trend for each term is displayed in the term bar.

The trend timeframe is displayed above the terms.

Change the timeframe for the trend of each term by clicking on the three vertical dots in the top right corner of the left-hand terms panel, scroll down to Showing: Trend, and then select one of the menu options.

Create your set as outlined here in the following article:

"How to Create, Rename, or Delete a Set"

Review articles for the terms selected in your set in the "Results" section.

Click on the Blue article title to launch the article in a new tab.

Click on the three vertical dots in the top right section of the Results View to launch the menu. Under "View Options", select your view options. Show Authors, Show Abstracts, and Show Evidence are selected by default.

Click on the three vertical dots in the top right section of the Results View to launch the menu. Under Concept Highlighting, select or de-select concepts.

Click on the panel icon on either side of the Results view to collapse the side panels.

Collapse the right-hand panel by clicking on the x at the top right-hand corner.

Click on a term to launch the Concept popover modal where you can quickly add terms to a set or a new set.

The "Filters" tab enables you to drill down by Keyword(s), DATA SOURCE, DATE, DOCUMENT TYPE, and ADDED BY.

The free-text search field supports filtering by keyword(s). To find the documents you are looking for, simply enter the relevant keyword(s) in the search field under the "Filters" tab. For more information on how to refine your search, check out our article Boolean Operators in Layar.

You can filter by "DATA SOURCE" by clicking to select one or many or SELECT ALL.

The sliding bar facilitates filtering the DATE by year.

The "CONNECTOR" picklist allows the selection of connectors. This menu will only be visible if any of the documents in the results section were added with a connector.

The "DOCUMENT TYPE" pickist facilitates the selection of the preferred document format.

The "ADDED BY" picklist menu allows you to filter your results by user.

The "Favorites" tab facilitates the review of all favorited articles in one place.

Click on "♡ Favorite" in the top left corner of the article to save an article in the Favorites tab.

An article selected as a favorite will have "🩶 Favorited" at the top left corner of the article.

The "View Options" menu is available within favorites to select your view options and concept highlighting.

The "Concept Detail" tab enables you to view the trends, related concepts, and documents for a selected term.

Highlighted terms in the documents in the "Results" section are concepts that can be selected and viewed in detail in the "Concept Detail" tab.

Trend information for selected concepts can be viewed in the "Concept Detail" tab.

The "Related Concepts" section displays the concept type and document count related to the selected term.

The "Documents Section" lists all documents found with the selected term. The "View Options" menu is also available within the "Concept Detail" tab to select your desired view options and concept highlighting.

With Signal, you can set up notifications to alert you whenever new documents are added to a set.

Click on the bell icon in the top right section of the Signal UI to launch the "Notification Settings" modal.

Under "USER" is the username and email to which the notifications will be sent.

Under "SET" displays the specific set you will receive the notifications for.

"FREQUENCY" enables you to choose how often you would like to receive notifications.