Covering the development period of October to December 2024, the EBS 2024 Q4 version boasts upgraded performance, integration, and interoperability across tools, devices, and platforms.
Breeding Analytics
Requesting for F1 Hybridity tests can now be coursed through the Molecular Data Analysis tool. This new feature integrates cross and marker data from the Cross Manager and GIGWA, a repository of genotypic data, respectively. On the other hand, Parental Purity Analysis results now show the consensus haplotype data. Both result types can be downloaded for further use. Data quality checking using the Phenotypic Data Manager is also improved through the feature to save transaction comments, while the Analysis Request Manager is now integrated with Bioflow, where users can submit the request results for further analysis.
Core Breeding
Entry management and error handling are upgraded in the Experiment Creation tool, while the Experiment Manager tool improves on usability via the new toggle to switch between a single- or multi-occurrence display as users update occurrence details. The Post Harvest feature in the Data Collection tool enabled barcode scanning to automatically load plot data, but manual input is still supported via a new toggle. Additionally, the Data Collection tool’s integration with the Field Book app further guarantees that all confidential information about germplasm records, such as pedigree, are secured and not included when germplasm data is imported to the app via Breeding API (BrAPI). Only relevant germplasm data for data collection purposes are shown and shared to the app.
The Harvest Manager tool features a better Harvest Data tab, where users can expect the data fields to be configured according to their material’s stage, type, and harvest or cross method. Data validation is also improved in the Germplasm tool’s new Coding feature to ensure that all germplasm names in EBS are unique.
Overall, this quarter was dedicated to enhance the Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) across Core Breeding tools, ensuring that experiments are accessed only on a permissions basis.
Core System
The User Management tool updated the roles for the Core Breeding domain to match current access permissions and to ensure that only the relevant access levels are retained for each tool. The creation workflow for outgoing shipments is enhanced to include the custom generation of legal documents. Lastly, maize molecular breeders from the Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT) can now generate the LGC vendor report form, so they can submit their low-density genotyping requests. This report template is created in the Printouts tool, where it is then connected to the Batch Manager tool.
Service Management
Users can now create a genotyping request with up to 50,000 samples, which is an improvement to the previous version that only supported 20,000 samples per request. The same number is supported in the Batch Manager and the newly-renamed Genotypic Request Manager tool. Finally, the MarkerDB tool upgraded its data validation so that only the relevant markers are displayed based on the marker group selection. This improvement is part of the allele creation process in MarkerDB.
More information on the EBS 2024 Q4 version is available in each domain’s respective pages in the EBS Production Release Notes space.
For questions, suggestions, or concerns, please file a support ticket via the EBS Support Desk. We look forward to hearing from you!