Figure 1

Search platform of the GMOseek software (part 1). Upper toolbar, left command button: Command enabling to browse, select and load a dataset. Upper toolbar, central command button: Command enabling to open a table containing a dataset that was last used. Upper toolbar, right command button: Command opening the help window containing the user manual. Left panel: Species present in the data set. The user can choose to select all the species or choose the ones of interest (e.g. the ingredient of the sample) for the search. Upper, middle panel: contains information about the definition. The information is about chances of a GMO appearing in a sample and about a GMO detection of a screening assay. Lower, middle panel: Once plant species are selected, displays a list of possible GM events and a list of screening assays which can detect these GM events. A probability of a negative result of a test is attached to each screening assay (in a case that the screening assay would be used alone). Lower tool bar, left command button: Command enabling the search start "find assay". Lower tool bar, right command button: Command enabling manual interruption of the search. Lower tool bar, selection field: if marked, this selection allows transferring the search results (best solution) to the inspection platform. Information bar (bottom): Information about the path to the loaded dataset.