By christelle.rabil@croptrust.org
18 March 2025

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

A big thank you to everyone who joined us on March 5. This session was open to anyone interested in using Genesys to access genebank data for research and analysis or to request samples from genebanks.

We hope the webinar helped you explore the possibilities of the Genesys portal. Special thanks to all participants who engaged with us and asked questions.

In How to Use Genesys (watch the recording here!), we covered:

• An introduction to the webinar and Genesys PGR 0:00:00 - 0:04:59 

• Going over the homepage 0:04:59 - 0:15:10 

• Registering and logging in 0:15:10 - 0:21:25 

• Translated Genesys and feedback mechanism 0:21:25 - 0:27:39 

• Q&A part 1 0:27:39 - 0:32:42 

• Passport data filtering manually, with AI, and visualizations 0:32:42 - 1:32:12 

• Similarity Search and Show Changes tool 1:32:12 - 1:37:53 

• Requesting material from genebanks 1:37:53 - 1:44:45 

• Downloading data and the MCPD data standard 1:44:45 - 1:50:46 

• Q&A part 2 1:50:46 - 1:52:47 

• Searchable trait datasets 1:52:47 - 2:00:47 

• Closing remarks 2:00:47 - 2:03:20

Stay tuned for Part 2, coming soon!