March 8th, 2024 New Features and Add-ons! We are continually enhancing QuickTrials and wanted to give you an update on the new features and add-ons that have been added in the last few months. New features New tutorials for the WebApp and Mobile App. Helps first-time users get up to speed with QuickTrials easily. The tutorial [...]
November 16th, 2023 November update We’ve been enhancing QuickTrials and wanted to mention some of the recent improvements that we think you’ll appreciate. Trial data overview enhancements We’ve improved the trial data overview screen that is used to inspect data captured in the field or enter observations on the WebApp. The overall design has been improved to show more data [...]
September 14th, 2023 Focus on trials layouts This newsletter highlights some of the recent changes that we’ve made to improve the randomization and generation of trial layouts. While QuickTrials has always had a lot of flexibility in placing plots, we received feedback from our customers requesting further enhancements. The features covered here represent the most requested enhancements and we plan to provide [...]
January 13th, 2023 New online user documentation Trials often have a central question that needs to be answered. It’s usually in the last step of the trial, the statistical analysis of the QuickTrials provides a lot of flexibility to handle different types of trials and various trialling setups. This flexibility is one of the things that makes QuickTrials so powerful, but it can [...]
October 19th, 2022 Statistical analysis of trial data Trials often have a central question that needs to be answered. It’s usually in the last step of the trial, the statistical analysis of the collected data, where answers to the question emerge. To help with this important step we’ve added some more statistical analysis capabilities to QuickTrials. In a new “Analysis” tab in [...]
We continue to enhance QuickTrials based on the great feedback we’re receiving from customers. The changes below are all about increasing efficiency and further improving the quality of trial data across an organisation. Library Trials The Traits Library provides a more automated and simplified way to design trials. Since adding this feature we received an overwhelmingly positive reaction to it [...]
All about plots When designing the physical aspects of a crop experiment, there are many choices to be made surrounding plots for the researcher to contend with: How many plots should my experiment have? What size and shape should my plots be? How can I prevent interactions between plots? Luckily for researchers today there are straightforward solutions to these problems and QuickTrials can help to implement [...]
Experimental design choices In agricultural research it is important to choose the right experimental design at the beginning of your trial so that the analyses produced at the end of the season are statistically meaningful. Before we look further at the different types of designs, it is worth taking some time to understand why we need them. Suppose a plant breeder chooses two plots of land [...]
Increased Flexibility A common problem with trials is that there are a number of datapoints that are not always known at the start of the trial. For example you may need to record specific details for each fruit that grows on a tree, without knowing how many fruits will actually grow. We handled this in the past with legacy observation groups where a user could check the box “Allow [...]
Common ways of trialling In QuickTrials there are different ways a trial can be defined depending on the outcome you want to achieve. We’ve been listening to our customers and also looking at how traits are used over time. A key aspect is how to measure a trait, from an actual measurement technique point of view, but also from a timing and sampling perspective. Getting this right makes it easier [...]
