What Geneious Cloud Database (beta) is
Geneious Cloud Database provides access to 10GB free, secure cloud data storage from the Geneious Prime desktop application. For this version of Geneious Cloud Database, you need to be on a personal license and have a My Account. Please see this article on How to start using Geneious Cloud Database for more information.
What Geneious Cloud Database (beta) is not
Is Geneious Cloud Database (beta), the Geneious Prime program running in a browser?
No - Geneious Prime is a desktop application. The current Geneious Cloud Database (beta) gives you access to 10GB of free, secure data storage. Data you have stored in Geneious Cloud Database (beta) is currently only accessible via the Geneious Prime desktop application. Computation is currently still performed locally on your computer.
Is Geneious Cloud Database (beta) the Shared Database/GSDB hosted on the cloud?
No - Shared Database/GSDB are server databases. These can be hosted on a cloud if your organization has the IT expertise to set this up and maintain it.
Sharing data with Geneious Cloud Database (beta)
Can we use Geneious Cloud Database (beta) to share data with colleagues?
No - this version of Geneious Cloud Database (beta) does not support sharing.
Can we use Geneious Cloud Database (beta) to share data with colleagues that do not use Geneious Prime?
No - if this is a feature you would find useful, please contact us.
Geneious Cloud Database (beta) storage
Does this support storing NGS data?
Technically, yes. However, this current version of Geneious Cloud Database (beta) performs analysis locally on your computer, so you still require enough memory to temporarily store and analyze this data locally. If storing and performing analysis on NGS in the cloud is a feature you would find useful, please contact us.
Can I pay for additional storage?
Not yet - if this is a feature you would find useful, please contact us.
Backing up your data in Geneious Cloud Database (beta)
⚠️ Geneious Cloud Database is in beta. We do not recommend this as your primary backup solution while we are in the beta phase.
Does Geneious Cloud Database backup my local database?
No - To backup data in your local database you currently need to copy this data to Geneious Cloud Database (beta).
Cloud executables
Can I push jobs to cloud compute resources for high-memory operations?
No - if this is a feature you would find useful, please contact us.
Other Geneious Prime Databases
Can we move our Shared Database to Geneious Cloud Database (beta) or vice versa?
If you move data that is in Geneious Shared Database to Geneious Cloud Database (beta) then you can access that data in the cloud. However, you can not yet share data in Geneious Cloud Database (beta) and as it is in beta phase, do we not recommend this as your primary backup solution.
Geneious Biologics
Can I access my Geneious Biologics data using Geneious Cloud Database?
Yes, log in to Geneious Cloud Database with your Geneious Biologics email and password to access your Geneious Biologics data. SSO is not supported currently. Further information.
Disabling Geneious Cloud Database (beta)
How do we block Geneious Cloud at our organization?
You can disable the plugin or block the endpoint. Further information.
Integrating with Geneious Cloud Database (beta)
Can I use Geneious Cloud Database (beta) as a REST API or a way to integrate my Geneious Prime data with my ELN, LIMs, Bioregister?
No - if this is a feature you would find useful, please contact us.
Can I push/pull data to Geneious Cloud Database (beta) via the Command Line Interface?
No - if this is a feature you would find useful, please contact us.
Can I pull data that is hosted in a separate AWS instance into Geneious Cloud Database (beta) directly, for example from an EC2 instance?
No - if this is a feature you would find useful, please contact us.