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EBS January 2026 User Release Notes

The January 2026 EBS release brings clearer analysis alerts, smoother experiment management, smarter data uploads, stronger security, and improved system stability across all modules. From sharing Molecular Data results to managing crosses and germplasm more easily, everything now works more reliably so you can focus on your breeding work with confidence.

EBS January 2026 User Release Notes

EBS January Highlights

Breeding Analytics (BA)

Analysis Request Manager (ARM)

✅ The Prediction tab now clearly informs you when BLUEs were not generated because BLUPs were selected in BIOFLOW.

The system now alerts (5) you if changes (such as suppressing residuals) will not be applied when you click Finalize (4) directly.

Molecular Data Analysis (MDA)

✅ Clearly see when BLUEs were not generated if BLUPs were selected.

✅ Receive a notification if changes won’t apply before finalizing your analysis.

✅View results without tables unexpectedly refreshing.

Phenotypic Data Manager (PDM)

✅See the percentage of missing values in summary tables.

✅Color heatmaps by row block or column block for better experiment interpretation.

✅View the correct design parameters based on your experiment design.

✅See clean whole-number grid coordinates.

Breeding Analytics Platform (BAP)

✅Upload and download files more securely.

✅Work in a more stable and reliable analytics environment.

Core Breeding (CB)

Experiment Creation (EC)

✅Scroll vertically in the Entry List tab to easily show/hide columns.

Experiment Manager (EM)

✅View and download row and column block numbers consistently.

✅Download metadata without QC column inconsistencies.

Cross Manager (CM)

✅Export Intercross data templates under a specific program.

✅Import parents without system timeouts or duplicate entries, in the Intercross wishlist file.

✅Move smoothly to the “Add Parents” step without errors.

Data Collection (DC)

✅Upload cross data that include “NA” values.

✅Upload time series data more reliably.

Germplasm Manager (GM) & List Manager (LM)

Germplasm Manager (GM)

List Manager (LM)

✅Upload cross data that include “NA” values.

✅Upload time series data more reliably.

Service Management (SM)

Haplotype Tracing

✅See markers that are missing from MarkerDB when uploading vendor files.

✅View correct workflow status history.

Digital Phenotyping

✅Access a fully integrated Digital Phenotyping Service workflow.

✅Use predefined steps, documents, and email templates by default.

✅Adjust workflow security permissions as needed.

Core System (CS)

User & Contact Management

User Management (UM)

Contact Management (CM)

✅Save contacts and institutions with clearer confirmation messages.

✅Add Organizational Units without errors.

✅Ensure planting, field, and site codes are validated for uniqueness.

✅Add addresses to contacts without system issues.

Printout Manager (PM)

✅Review connections linked to templates before import/export.

✅Generate templates more reliably.