By christelle.rabil@croptrust.org
24 March 2022

The recording of the webinar “How to use Genesys” is now available.

Many thanks to everyone who attended our How to use Genesys webinar on 22 March. We hope it helped you get to grips with the possibilities of the portal. Special thanks to all who asked questions during the webinar.

In How to use Genesys (watch again!) we discussed:

The basics:

• Introduction to Genesys 00:00:00

• Genesys homepage interface 00:03:14

• Accession-level data in Genesys 00:04:30

• MCPD descriptors and Genesys 00:07:50

Some useful tools:

• “Similarity search” tool 00:11:05

• “Show changes” tool 00:13:05

Browsing and visualization:

• Browsing the database by crop 00:13:37

• Using the filtering panel and downloading MCPD files 00:15:38

• Data visualization: Overviews 00:18:22

• Data visualization: Maps 00:19:24

Filtering and searching passport data:

• Taxonomy and synonym filter 00:21:37
• Full-text search 00:25:33
• Adding accessions to “My List” and initiating a request for material 00:27:00
• Historical records in Genesys 00:28:45
• Different ways to select accessions 00:31:12
• Geographical filters 00:32:45 
• Filtering by climatic parameters 00:34:53
• Metadata filters (dates of data upload/update) 00:36:50
• Genebank profiles 00:37:52
• Genesys APIs and packages 00:39:13
• Q&A Session 00:40:30 to 01:15:30

The session ended with a 40-minute Q&A session with Matija Obreza, head of genebank information systems at the Crop Trust. He covered the re-use of data from Genesys, different file formats generated by Genesys, updating and uploading passport data, FIGS subsetting and filtering by climatic parameters, availability of different data types in Genesys, and more.

For questions that haven’t been covered in the Q&A, please feel free to contact helpdesk@genesys-pgr.org. 

Topics for future webinars include:

• Subsets: Core collections, Reference sets, purpose-built sets of accessions

• Trait data: Descriptors and trait datasets

• Crop diversity trees

• Genesys tools for passport data validation

• Uploading to Genesys

 

Stay tuned!