*3.2. The Homepage of GDS*

The interface of the GDS included five parts (Figure 1): the "navigation bar", the "species gallery", the "tool sets", the "brief introduction", and the "live visitor statistics". At the top of the homepage, the navigation bar (Figure 1a) consists of six labels: Logo, Species, Tools, Download, Community, and Help. Below the navigation bar are quick links to the eight strawberry species. A suite of bioinformatics tools is on the right (Figure 1b,c). Below the species gallery and tool set is a brief introduction to the GDS (Figure 1d). Finally, live statistics (Figure 1e) tools were implemented to collect the number and location of visits.

**Figure 1.** The GDS homepage. (**a**) Navigation bar; (**b**) species gallery; (**c**) tool set; (**d**) brief introduction, and (**e**) live visitor statistics.
