BIMS training workshop for rosaceae breeders (3/2018)

A full day BIMS training workshop held at the RosBreed Annual Participant Meeting in East Lansing on March 5, 2018.
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Breeders Information Management System (BIMS) Workshop

RosBREED 2018 Participants Meeting: East Lansing, MI
March 5, 2018: 9.00 AM – 5.00 PM
BIMS Trainers: Taein Lee, Sook Jung, Ksenija Gasic, Jodi Humann, Michael Coe, Dorrie Main
Attending: 41 Rosaceae Breeders and Scientists

Overview:
This all day workshop will provide breeders (and program personnel) with practical training on how to use BIMS to manage their breeding program data. Participants will learn how to create a private breeding program within BIMS, give permission to a group of people, load data in templates and/or Field Book App output, view/search/download data, perform various searches, and create input files for the Field Book App. There will be a discussion time at the end to discuss functionality needs for BIMS. Participants will need to bring a laptop.

Agenda

  • Introduction to Workshop and BIMS (Dorrie): 9.00 AM
  • Demo from a breeder (Ksenija): 9.35 AM
  • Break: 10.15 AM
  • Hands on training using sweet cherry RB data (Taein): 10.30 AM
    • Browsing trait/cross/trial data with statistical values
    • How to Search and Download
  • Lunch: 12.15 PM
  • Overview of Templates (Sook): 1.00 PM
  • Hands on Training using your data or sample data (Taein): 1.30 PM
    • Create a program
    • Load data in template
    • Load data in FieldBook output
    • Browse/search your own data
    • Create an input file for FieldBook App
    • Troubleshooting
  • Break: 3.15 PM
  • Open discussion on BIMS and Breeders Needs and Workshop Survey: 3.30 – 4.30 PM