Sporeline: Explore Your Lineage

The Sporeline page shows where every culture, lot and block on your farm came from and what was made from it. It follows the chain from the strain and the culture you started with, through the plates, liquid cultures and spawn made from them, all the way to the blocks on your shelves, and you can walk that chain in either direction. Open it from Sporeline at the top of the sidebar, just above Lab.

Everything you click on this page opens on this page. You never have to go to another list to find something and then come back.

Who can see what

Below Manager, the reach of an item still shows how many orders it went into, and the page says to ask a manager for the order list.

What you see first

The page starts from what your farm actually has. With nothing typed in the search box, it shows these sections, in this order: Strains, Blocks, Lots, Recipes, Lab, Flagged sources and, for Managers and Owners, Orders. Recent and Pinned sit beside them, or below them on a narrow screen.

A section appears only when you have something in it. A farm with no lab won’t see Strains or Lab at all, and a farm with nothing flagged won’t see Flagged sources. If a section’s numbers could not be loaded, the section still shows and says so in one sentence, for example “Block counts couldn’t load.”, so you never read a failure as zero.

A brand-new farm sees one sentence: “Nothing to explore yet. Sporeline fills in as you make lots and blocks.”

If you already have something in hand, type its name or code in the search box, or scan its label (see Scanning below).

Blocks by stage

The Blocks section counts the blocks you have in production, meaning every block that is not completed, discarded or contaminated, for example “211 in production”. Under it, each stage is a button with its count, such as 5 fruiting.

Click a stage to list that stage’s blocks right on this page, oldest first, 50 at a time. The blocks are grouped under the lot they came from, and each lot has an Open lot button. Click a block to see its lineage, or Open lot to see the lot’s. Load 50 more lists the next 50.

Lots

The Lots section lists your ten newest lots. Click one to see its lineage. Show more lists all your lots, 25 at a time, newest first.

Recipes

The Recipes section lists your recipes with how many blocks made from each one are in production and the share of its blocks that were contaminated. Use the sort menu to order them by In production, Contamination or Name, and Show all to list every recipe. Click a recipe to see what was made from it.

If a recipe says Not counted yet, the items made from it were made before Sporeline started counting live, so its numbers would read low. A one-time recount fills them in, and until then the page shows nothing rather than a wrong number. A recipe nothing has been made from yet reads the same way for now.

Strains

The Strains section lists your strains with one row each. The columns are:

• Code: the strain’s catalog code, or its name if it has no code yet.
• Species: the species on the strain’s catalog entry.
• Lines: how many root cultures of this strain you keep, meaning cultures that were not made from another culture.
• Vials: how many of the strain’s cultures are on hand, leaving out any that are archived, contaminated, used up or discarded.
• In production: how many blocks made from this strain are in production, so anything not completed, discarded or contaminated.
• Contamination: the share of this strain’s blocks that were contaminated, with the two numbers beside it in grey.

A strain can carry a one-word badge. Suspect means one of its sources has been flagged, and Cryo or NCL is the culture bank status from the strain’s catalog entry.

Use the sort menu to order the strains by In production, Contamination, Vials or Code. The section shows your top 10 strains first, and Show all lists every one. Not counted yet means the same here as it does for recipes.

Click a row to focus on that strain. For Managers and Owners, the section also says when some cultures have a strain name but no linked strain, with a Link them link (see Link cultures to a strain below).

Lab

The Lab section shows only on farms that have lab items. It has a button for each kind: Cultures, Plates and Liquid cultures, each with how many you have, and, for Workers and up, Trials. Click one to list the newest 50 of that kind on this page, and Load 50 more for the next 50. Click any item to see its lineage.

Flagged sources

Flagged sources lists the cultures, plates, liquid cultures and lots a Manager has marked as a suspect source, newest first, with how far each one reached. Click Open to focus on one and see everything made from it. If the page could not check every source, it says so, because a flagged source may be missing from the list. To flag or clear a source, see The Lab: Cultures, Cryo, Plates and Liquid Cultures.

Orders (Managers)

Managers and Owners see an Orders section with your newest orders, each with its number, date, status and customer. Click an order to see it here on the Sporeline page: the lots, blocks and harvests it drew from. Click a lot to follow its lineage further back.

Below Manager there is no Orders section, and wherever an item went into orders the page says to ask a manager for the order list.

Recent and Pinned

These two show only when you have something in them.

Recent shows the last few items you opened on this computer, so you can get back to them quickly. It clears when you sign out.

Pinned is for the items you come back to every week, such as your main production strain or a lot you are watching. Click Pin on an item’s card to add it, and Unpin to take it off. You can keep up to 24 pins on each farm. Your pins are yours alone and are kept with your account, so they follow you to any computer and to any farm you can open. Demo accounts can’t save pins. If you changed your pins in another tab or on another device, the page loads that newer list and makes your change on top of it, so one change never overwrites the other. Managers and Owners can pin an order too; it is named by its order number only.

Going deeper and back

Once you click into something, a trail at the top of the page shows the path you took, for example Sporeline › Fruiting › 1C7M-003. Click any step in the trail to go back to it. A list you opened comes back with the rows you already loaded. The first step, Sporeline, takes you back to the start of the page.

Your browser’s Back button works too, and the trail keeps up with it.

Focus on an item

When you focus on a strain, culture, plate, liquid culture, recipe, lot or block, the page shows it in a card with Open its page and Traceability report, and sections underneath.

Where it came from is the full chain back to the start, with the oldest item first. Click any item in it to focus on that one instead.

What was made from it lists the kinds of items made directly from this one, with a count for each. A strain with more than 5,000 cultures shows 5,000+, because the page stops counting there, and its list says the oldest may be missing. Click Show to list them, 50 at a time. A long list is grouped by day or by week so it stays readable. Click any row to focus on it.

Reach counts everything downstream, not just the next step: the blocks, the batches and how many were lot-tracked, how many blocks were contaminated, and where the blocks are by stage. It stays current within about a minute of new work being logged. A block shows no Reach, because blocks have no reach of their own.

Draw what is open draws the chain you have opened so far as a diagram: the items it came from, this one, the rows you clicked Show on, and a strain’s Lines. Anything you haven’t opened appears as a +N more box, so the drawing stays small enough to read.

A strain’s lines

When you focus on a strain, a Lines section lists its root cultures grouped by generation, with G0 first. Each line shows where it came from, its date, and how many blocks it reached and how many of those were contaminated, so you can see which line made the most blocks and which one had the most contamination. Not counted yet means its count is not complete yet. Click Focus on a line to follow it down to the plates, liquid cultures, spawn and blocks made from it.

Scanning

You don’t need to type a code if you have the label in front of you. Click Phone beside the search box, scan the QR code that appears with your phone’s camera, and then every label you scan with the phone opens on the computer. A barcode gun plugged into the computer works too, with nothing to set up: scan a label while the page is open and it focuses on that item.

Link cultures to a strain (Manager or Owner)

The Strains section counts a culture under a strain only when the culture is linked to that strain in the catalog. Cultures that only have a strain name typed in are not counted until they are linked. When you have some, the section says how many, for example “3 cultures have a strain name but no linked strain”, with a Link them link.

Link them is the one link on the starting page that leaves Sporeline. It opens Lab > Strains > Link cultures, which lists your unlinked cultures by the strain name typed on them. Pick the catalog strain each name belongs to and save. Saving sets only each culture’s linked strain and changes nothing else about it. You only need to do this once for older cultures, since new cultures pick their strain from the catalog.

Open Sporeline from any page

Strain, recipe, culture, plate, liquid culture, trial, lot and block pages each have a View in Sporeline link that opens this page already focused on that item.