A new free External Tools plugin. This plugin allows external commands to be run from a dedicated JASON panel. Under the hood, it uses a command-line interface (CLI) for external commands.

JASON can pass either selected items, the whole document, or a simple user input to the external command. Keep in mind that JASON data is stored in common HDF5 or JSON formats, which can be accessed easily from many programming languages.

Of course, our own BeautifulJASON module for Python makes this work a breeze!

We have a few examples to share. Have you missed the ability to add your own scripted functionality to JASON? The External Tools plugin together with BeautifulJASON makes it easy. Do you have your favorite third-party tool that you want to call from JASON? The External Tools plugin makes it possible. And remember that, in the age of AI, writing small scripts is becoming much easier. We have even created special pages in the BeautifulJASON documentation for AI enthusiasts: https://www.jeoljason.com/beautifuljason/docs/source/beautifuljason.ai.html  

Adaptive method for selecting bins. The method takes peak positions in the spectrum into account and adjusts bin boundaries accordingly. 

Fully reworked neural-network-based 1D peak-picking. We continue to introduce AI/ML methods and have further improved our ML-based peak–picking routine, which now uses more advanced training techniques. 

Ignored regions for baseline and phase correction. Sometimes it is necessary to instruct NMR processing to ignore certain spectral regions, such as solvent–suppression regions for automatic phase correction or integral regions for automatic baseline correction. This is now possible. The regions can be taken from existing integrals on the spectrum. SMILEQ can also update excluded integral regions for baseline correction automatically. 

Reworked NMR integration: increased precision and tolerance to ZF. qNMR plays an increasingly important role, so improving its robustness is essential. We went back to basics and improved how we perform standard sum integrations. 

Titles of the individual spectra can be displayed in the overlapped mode. 

Option to control the visibility of annotations on the plot. 

GUI tools to extract traces from 2D spectra. Traces can now be selected interactively on the 2D spectrum: just click where you want to select the trace. Click and drag to select a range of traces. There is no need to type trace positions manually! 

Table creation with rules: contents of custom columns and equations can be copied. Table creation with rules is now even smarter: it can incorporate your custom equations and the custom columns you have added. 

Inverted plot-axis option. It is now possible to reverse the direction of data axes on charts, just as you would with the ppm scale of NMR spectra.

Nutation curve analysis. Robust identification of your 90-degree pulse is getting even simpler. 

Further improvements to the fitting results table. We hope you will like the new table for fitting results reports. 

A table with molecular information. Information such as empirical formula, molecular weight, and exact mass can be displayed in a dedicated table. Just right–click your molecule in JASON and choose Create – Table of Properties. 

Load CIF files. The JEOL Yokogushi concept in action: connecting multiple analytical chemistry techniques under one roof. Typical XRD/ED CIF files can now be loaded directly into JASON. Did you know JEOL is at the forefront of diffraction methods? Check here: https://www.jeol.com/products/scientific/others/XtaLAB_Synergy-ED.php. 

Support for CIQTEK NMR format. We are committed to our multi-vendor principles, and we continuously add support for new data formats and vendors. 

Open standard files from the File Browser. Just double-click any file in the JASON File Browser and it will open in the associated application. Text files can also be opened in JASON: double-clicking a .txt file opens it in JASON. The context menu (right-click) provides an option to open .txt files in your standard external text editor or viewer.  

Allow text and table items to be saved as .txt files. 

JASON Connect: a new commercial plugin to organize your data on a local computer. Do you need to organize and store your data locally, then search it robustly? JASON Connect is a new plugin that adds database functionality to JASON. Easy, quick searches for spectra and molecules are now available. Requires a separate license. 

After extensive development we are excited to launch JASON Connect for beta testing.

Our development process is driven by your feedback, so we are first opening the plugin for beta-testing with real-world workflows. If you want to join the A-team of beta-testers, please get in touch!

Commercial release coming soon!