Figure 3

Inspection platform (Decision Support System) of the GMOseek software. Extreme 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 inspection. Middle left panel: Screening assays that can be performed for the loaded dataset. The screening assays indicated in black are the ones chosen for the experimental screening phase. The grey assays are not tested. The user can select the assays to be tested by right clicking on each screening assay. Left clicking a screening assay indicated the positive outcome of a screening assay (un-ticked screening assays result in negative outcome). Middle right panel: Event-specific assays that can be performed for the loaded dataset. Depending on the outcomes of the screening phase, GM events appear green (not present in the sample) or red (possibly present in the sample, to be tested). After the experimental identification phase, the user indicates the outcome of the event-specific assays, a ticked GMO meaning a positive result of the event-specific assay for this GMO. Extreme right panel: consistency panel. After clicking on the command button "check consistency", a message appears indicating the absence of consistency between the screening phase and identification phases, or eventually the possible inconsistency of the experimental results.