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Genesys User Survey 2025

9 April 2025
New Genesys Handout: A Guide to Genebank Data and Tools

Explore the full range of Genesys services for genebanks and data users in our newly updated brochure, now available in Spanish too. Share it with your networks!

3 April 2025
Genesys Achievements in 2024 and Plans for 2025

The Genesys 2024 annual report and 2025 workplan are now available online. Here is a brief overview.

3 April 2025
Recording available: How to use Genesys - Part 1

The recording of our first How to Use Genesys webinar for 2025 is now online!

18 March 2025
How to use Genesys webinar

Join the upcoming Genesys Webinar!

26 February 2025
Highlights of 2024

What was Genesys up to last year?

6 February 2025
A BOLD Wrap-Up of 2024

Celebrating Progress with Genesys and the BOLD Project

14 December 2024
Highlights from the 2024 GOAL Workshop in Bogotá

Empowering genebanks with Genesys: insights from the largest GOAL-DM workshop yet

12 December 2024
Genesys is now available in French and Spanish

Log in now to access this translated post!

6 December 2024
Introducing Genesys AI

Effortless access to plant genetic resources through natural language search

6 December 2024
IRRI Publishes New Rice Variety Panel on Genesys to Accelerate Trait Discovery and Breeding

IRRI made a significant contribution to global rice research by publishing the Rice Released Variety Panel (RVP) on Genesys.

5 December 2024
Workshop on genebank data management announcement

The next workshop on genebank data management publishing for Latin American genebanks will be in Bogota, Colombia from 18 – 22 November 2024 in collaboration with Agrosavia.

1 August 2024
Increase Visibility of your Genebank Data with Embedded Genesys

Discover how Embedded Genesys can save you time and money by integrating data from Genesys directly into your website.

24 July 2024
Help us make Genesys available in your language!

Genesys is now accessible in French and Spanish for a select group of users.

11 July 2024
New data from national genebanks

Here are the updates made in the first half of 2024.

5 July 2024
User guide: How to Upload Trait Data

This tutorial covers uploading trait data to Genesys, based on the Genesys webinar series.

1 July 2024
Accessions from USDA updated

All records from USDA NPGS are up to date!

21 June 2024
Update to material request form

Our material request form has been updated based on feedback from our partner genebanks.

10 June 2024
How to use RStudio to download passport data

Say goodbye to endless Excel files from Genesys with the genesysr package!

3 June 2024
Genesys Achievements in 2023 and Plans for 2024

The Genesys 2023 annual report and 2024 workplan are now available online. Here is a brief overview.

18 April 2024
Passport Data Upload via the Genesys Uploader Tool

The latest Genesys webinar for our data providers took place on April 4. Here are the details.

17 April 2024
Accession Number 184

A forage powerhouse unveiled.

16 April 2024
In case you missed it: Webinar recording Part 3

The recording of the third and final webinar on trait data upload is available!

8 March 2024
In case you missed it: Webinar recording Part 2

The Genesys webinar on uploading trait data continued on February 20. Here are the details.

26 February 2024
In case you missed it: Webinar recording

The first Genesys webinar of 2024 for our data providers took place on February 2. Here are the details.

6 February 2024
New data from national genebanks

Here are the updates made in the last half of 2023.

31 January 2024
Last website update of 2023

Read about the new download methods and upgrades to Genesys tools to wrap up the year.

28 November 2023
Genesys Uploader 2.1

A new Genesys Uploader is now available for download!

3 October 2023
More features added in August!

Read about the upgrade of the traits search, quick download option, and the new curation type descriptor added to Genesys in August 2023.

12 September 2023
More features added in July!

Read about the improvements and new features added to Genesys in July 2023.

28 July 2023
Genesys R package 2.0.0

The genesysr package is updated in line with recent changes to how you log in to Genesys.

28 July 2023
Genesys Uploader 2.0

A new Genesys Uploader is now available for download!

18 July 2023
Enregistrement: Comment utiliser Genesys

L'enregistrement du webinaire Comment utiliser Genesys est maintenant disponible.

6 July 2023
Advanced data filters

Filtering data by taxonomy and provenance is cool, but do you know about our advanced filtering options?

5 June 2023
Unleashing Traits through Dynamic Visualization

Genesys now unpacks raw characterization and evaluation data from genebanks.

25 May 2023
Genesys: a gateway into the world’s gene banks

Read about Genesys through the lens of DivSeek.

18 May 2023
Genesys rolls out the Subsetting Tool

You can now create your own subsets of accessions by using the climate and soil variables of your choice.

8 May 2023
Software synergies: reimagining the future of crop breeding

Read about our collaboration with Germinate at the James Hutton Institute through the lens of DivSeek.

5 May 2023
Mali’s national genebank joins the Genesys family

Continuing its effort to include data from more national genebanks, Genesys welcomes the Institute of Rural Economy as a new data provider.

2 May 2023
Update of EURISCO data

Genesys is (again) updated with the latest data from EURISCO.

24 April 2023
Webinaire: Comment utiliser Genesys

Vous voulez savoir comment utiliser Genesys et où se cachent les fonctionnalités avancées ? Participez à notre webinaire!

19 April 2023
Genesys Strategy 2023-2025 brief

The Genesys Advisory Committee met last October to discuss how to grow and develop the platform. The goals for the next three years are to meet the needs of partner genebanks while continuously improving the website.

2 March 2023
Unlocking the secrets of crop diversity: Genesys connects genebanks and users worldwide

Learn more about all the services Genesys provides to genebanks and their users in our new handout document, and don’t forget to share it in your networks!

24 February 2023
Genesys 2023.1

Read about the improvements and new features added to Genesys in January 2023.

21 February 2023
Update to the data from NARC, Jordan

Data from the National Agricultural Research Center in Jordan uses a new FAO InstituteCode: JOR105

9 February 2023
Search by climate

Did you know that you can search for accessions by climatic variables? This guide explains how this works in Genesys.

7 February 2023
Spotlight: The World Vegetable Center

Learn about the work of the international vegetables genebank.

14 November 2022
Step-by-step guide to requesting accessions

Want to learn how to request genebank accessions through Genesys? Check out our newest tutorial

15 August 2022
Spotlight: The Australian Pastures Genebank

Learn about the work of Australia’s national pasture and forage genebank.

1 August 2022
What does it take for a genebank to go online?

Data managers from the national genebanks of Ghana and Zambia spill the beans

18 July 2022