The Crop Trust is an international organization dedicated to conserving and making available crop diversity. Genesys is an online platform where you can find information about PGRFA. Objectives: - Enable genebanks to share information about their crop collections - Allow plant breeders to identify material in genebanks for developing new varieties resistant to pests, diseases and changing climatic conditions. - Easy access to genebank data lies at the heart of the platform. Our goal was to make Genesys fit for simple data entry and exploration across the expanding database. - Data providers and users from across the world access the platform. It must be fast and secure. - The ecosystem of frameworks and libraries continues to evolve. Genesys must keep up to date to stay relevant.SolutionBackend: Genesys was implemented using Spring MVC and JSP and in 2018 it was ready for an upgrade. In the implementation of the Genesys Catalog project we explored new technologies: React for the frontend and REST APIs at the backend. Since the frontend and backend were strongly coupled in the original project, the task was to migrate to React. Existing entry points had to be migrated from MVC to REST and include the functionality of the Catalog project. Full-text search Finding information about a particular record in a large database can be exhausting for users. We wanted to design the platform so that a user can find an accession in a simpler way. Elasticsearch turned out to be a great solution that allows for full-text search and filtering for specific values.ResultsAs the result of cooperation with the Crop Trust, Aimprosoft significantly contributed to a platform of global importance. Due to the tireless efforts of Crop Trust’s team and Aimprosoft’s technical implementers, users are now able to explore data of over 4M plant samples. The project experiences a permanent improvement. We are going to move forward.
