Genetic monitoring in Wildbook

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I have noticed that there has been some recent work on genetics in WB.

  • WB-537: Genetic information successfully blocks submissions without all required fields.
  • WB-538: Genetic information retains state when other fields are edited.

But I have not found much documentation on genetics in recent documentations. the individual genetic monitoring it a field that is interested to have further developed by WildMe?
I was wondering if these features are being used a lot in the WBs platforms and what is current state of it.
Thanks in advance

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Hi @AntonAB

Wildbook started supporting tissue sample and genetics data a few years back under a cetacean project called GeneGIS. The functionality is not widely used outside of cetaceans, but for each Encounter you can add one or more Tissue Samples:

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You can see that fairly rich metadata can be added for the sample, and we can configure the type to a fixed list of tissue sample types in Wildbook. Once a tissue sample has been added, you should see this on the Encounter:

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And from there you can add haplotype, genotype/microsat. markers, genetic sex, and biological chemical measurements.

Items we need to configure for you in Wildbook:

  • allowed tissue sample types

  • allowed haplotypes

  • allowed microsat. markers

  • allowed chemical measurements (and their units)

But once those are in place, they are searchable via Encounter Search and Individual Search and get associated wih individuals via their Encounters.

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Please let me know if I can provide more info or set up these configurations for the Lynx Wildbook.

Thanks,
Jason

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Hi Jason!
Thanks very much for the information, also I think all these fields are available via BulkImport, isn’t it?
The next year, maybe we are going to evaluate whether it is possible to do genetic information in a workflow among several platform, and I want to know how is posible to integrate Lynx Wildbook in some part of this workflow.
As I get more information I will let you know.
Thanks in advance!

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Hi @AntonAB

Yes, these should all be bulk importable.

Thanks,
Jason