Hi,

first of all, thank you so much for continuously developing this software!

I want to use UGene as our plasmid reference database and was wondering why the "Connect to UGENE shared database"-feature was removed. Are there any plans on reintegrating this feature?

Edit: The "Workspace" feature does not match our requirements for data safety and user access management.

Thanks and kind regards!

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Concerning access management, our users would each need to be given an individual combination (!) of the following privileges:
- See all sequence names and metadata in one folder
- Read some but not others of those sequences with annotations
- Add a new sequence to the folder
- Change sequences in the folder
(- Change annotations of those sequences)

Having a very brief look at the db structure created by Version 42.0, that seems achievable with different mysql user privileges per table (apart from maybe point 2).

The data safety part is a simply about (the necessity of) trust. I trust you more than I do benchling et al., but less than myself and my universities IT department. I can run UGene in a VM with Wireshark, but I can't audit the code running Workspace. I'm not dealing with state secrets, but leaked or compromised data could seriously harm our work.

Thanks for hearing me out and best regards!