A new Mash plasmid database can be created using the menu command File > New > Create Task Template. Then select Create Task Template for Whole Genome Sequencing Data and then Create Task Template for Plasmid Mash Database.

This will create a Task Template with a new Mash Plasmid Database. The Mash plasmid typing will have the name of the selected AMR filter (e.g. Priority AMR targets carrying plasmids) as default name.

Task Templates with Mash plasmid databases can be added to multiple Projects. One Project can contain multiple Task Templates with Plasmid databases. Users need only read access to the Task Template to add Samples to the Mash database. The access control for adding the new Task Template to a new Project is set to Add to Project - Owner to prevent the Mash database from being filled with a large number of unwanted Samples.

See the page Edit Mash Plasmid Typing for a description of the typing editor.