Creating an editable project

You can take an existing project created by someone else, and copy it for your own investigation. This is a required step to continue with the recipes in this section and is explained here.

Microreact features demonstrated

Opening a Microreact project
Creating your own copy of a project

Tutorial

The dataset used through these recipes is already available on Microreact. Go to microreact.org/project/kpncolombia and explore the collection of isolates.

Public Microreact projects created by others, such as this one, are read only and cannot be edited by you. For our purposes, we need to make a copy of the project before proceeding. Notice the crossed out pen on right top corner of your screen. This indicates that you cannot edit the current Microreact project.

Task 1: Create an editable project. Step 1: Notice the crossed out pen on right top corner of your screen. This indicates that you cannot edit the current Microreact project.

We will make our own copy in the following steps. Click the crossed out "Pen" symbol in the top right of the screen. A window may appear asking you to "SIGN IN TO EDIT". You can sign in using another account, such as google, or you can use your email. When you use your email, a magic link will be sent to your email that will allow you to log-in.

Sign in window

Once you sign in, the message changes, and you are invited to "MAKE A COPY" of the current project. Make a copy, to proceed. Notice that, once you made a copy of the project, the crossed out "pen" symbol will change to a "normal pen", and you will be able to edit and save the project.

Task 1: Create an editable project. Step 4: Notice that, once you made a copy of the project, the crossed out "pen" symbol will change to a "normal pen", and you will be able to edit and save the project.

Now with your own copy of the project you can make any changes you like, without affecting the original. You are now ready to start manipulating the project as described in the next steps: