Strains
Your culture list: each strain's code, species, and what it is sold as.
Strains
The Strains page is your culture list. Each strain has a code, the short name your farm already uses for it on lots and labels (for example HE-CNS), plus its species, common name, the name that prints on labels, and where it sits in your culture bank.
The code is the key. Sporeline treats HE-CNS, HECNS, HE_CNS and he-cns as the same strain, because they print the same way: letters and digits only, in capitals (HECNS). Accented letters are converted, so PCLÖG prints as PCLOG.
Everyone on your team can see the list and open a strain, Viewers included. Changing anything takes the role listed next to each action below.
Getting your list in
There are three ways a strain gets onto the page:
- Import (Managers): paste your culture list from a spreadsheet.
- Add strain (Managers): add one strain by hand.
- Promote from Trial (Workers and up): promote a lab trial marked as passing, as before.
Importing from a spreadsheet
- Go to Lab > Strains and click Import.
- In your spreadsheet, select the rows of your list, including the header row, and copy them.
- Paste into the box. Sporeline reads the columns from your header. Check the column choices under the box and change any that are wrong.
- Leave Fix known spellings ticked to correct common binomial misspellings (for example
AGERITAbecomesaegerita). Each fix is shown as “was …” in the preview. - Click Preview. Nothing is saved yet. Sporeline checks every row and shows what would happen: Create, Update, Unchanged, Review or Error, with the reason beside it.
- Under In use, not on your list, Sporeline lists codes your farm already uses (on your species list, recipes or products) that the paste does not include. Ticked codes are added as strains to review, so they work in pickers and labels now. You can fill in their species later.
- Click Apply.
What the import understands:
| On your sheet | What Sporeline does |
|---|---|
| A heading row like “Tested and in regular production” or “Special order” | Sets the section for the rows below it |
A code with another spelling in brackets, like PC-1 (PCLÖG) | Saves PC-1 as the code and PCLÖG as an alias |
| The header row repeated partway down | Skips it |
| A code with no binomial | Adds the strain for review |
| A row without a code | Not sent; shown as an error |
| The same strain twice (any spelling) | Neither row is sent; each names the other |
Importing again after you edit your sheet only changes what changed. A blank cell never erases what is saved, and the import never deletes or archives a strain.
The strains table
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Code | Your code for the strain. Click it to open the strain |
| Label name | What prints on labels; the common name shows underneath when it differs |
| Species | The binomial (for example Hericium erinaceus) |
| Variation, Origin | As on your list |
| Bank | Active, Cryo or NCL |
| Section | Regular or Special order |
| Sold as | All, no LC, agar only, or your list’s own word |
| NCL | When the next refresh is due, with a Due pill when it is |
| Status | Active, Retired or Archived |
Search finds a strain by any spelling of its code, an alias, its common name or its binomial. Filters narrow the list by section, bank, status, strains due for NCL, and strains that need review.
A strain’s page
The strain page shows everything about one strain, its NCL refresh history, and what has been made from it (recipes, cultures and more).
- Record NCL refresh (Workers and up): pick the date and click the button.
- Edit (Managers): change the code, species, names, bank, section and NCL settings. A code another strain already uses is refused with the strain that has it.
- Status (Workers and up): Active, Retired or Archived.
Picking a strain elsewhere
Once your farm has a list, recipe forms show a strain picker instead of the species and strain boxes. Picking a strain fills in the species (its binomial), the strain (its code) and the lot code strain (its printed form, for example HECNS). If you typed your own lot code, picking again keeps it. A recipe saved before you had a list shows Link to catalog.
A recipe can only use a strain that is on your list. To make a recipe for something new, a Manager adds the strain first (Add strain on the Strains page), then it shows in the picker.
The culture forms and the product form offer the same picker as an option; the species and strain boxes stay editable. When you bring products in from QuickBooks, an item whose name contains a strain’s code (for example SUB-HE-CNS) is matched to that strain.
Strain statuses
- Active: in use and offered in pickers.
- Retired: kept for history, not offered in pickers.
- Archived: hidden from the list unless you filter for it.