diff --git a/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog.js b/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog.js
index 409f532147fc2841d8ec1656c461454fec1122c4..3f0cf1646ff1ab4c0f04aa241e8e449b95033256 100644
--- a/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog.js
+++ b/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog.js
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ EditGenomeDialog.prototype.createGeneralTabContent = function () {
     onclick: function () {
       return self.onSaveClicked().then(function () {
         return self.close();
-      }, GuiConnector.alert);
+      }).catch(GuiConnector.alert);
     },
     xss: false
   });
@@ -208,6 +208,20 @@ EditGenomeDialog.prototype.createGeneralTabContent = function () {
   return result;
 };
 
+/**
+ *
+ * @returns {Promise|PromiseLike}
+ */
+EditGenomeDialog.prototype.onSaveClicked = function () {
+  var self = this;
+  if (!self.isNew()) {
+    return self.callListeners("onSave");
+  } else {
+    return self.getServerConnector().updateReferenceGenome(self.getReferenceGenome()).then(function () {
+      return self.callListeners("onSave");
+    });
+  }
+};
 /**
  *
  * @param {ReferenceGenome} genome
@@ -289,7 +303,10 @@ EditGenomeDialog.prototype._fillTypeSelect = function (genome, selectedOrganism)
  */
 EditGenomeDialog.prototype._fillVersionSelect = function (genome, selectedOrganism, selectedType) {
   var self = this;
-  return self.getServerConnector().getReferenceGenomeVersions({organism: selectedOrganism, type:selectedType}).then(function (versions) {
+  return self.getServerConnector().getReferenceGenomeVersions({
+    organism: selectedOrganism,
+    type: selectedType
+  }).then(function (versions) {
 
     var genomeVersionSelect = $("[name=genomeVersionSelect]", self.getElement());
     var selectedVersion;
diff --git a/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog-test.js b/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog-test.js
index 2eb9151181c3a36920d5e7366c97a16e300efc7f..5eb04f7f354dcc42fa86a3f4a7d16eaf60fbf344 100644
--- a/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog-test.js
+++ b/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/admin/EditGenomeDialog-test.js
@@ -61,4 +61,25 @@ describe('EditGenomeDialog', function () {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('click save', function () {
+    it('existing genome', function () {
+      var dialog;
+      return ServerConnector.getReferenceGenome({organism:"9606", type:"UCSC",version:"hg38"}).then(function (genome) {
+        dialog = new EditGenomeDialog({
+          element: testDiv,
+          referenceGenome: genome,
+          customMap: null,
+          serverConnector: ServerConnector
+        });
+        return dialog.init();
+      }).then(function () {
+        return dialog.open();
+      }).then(function () {
+        return $("[name=saveGenome]", testDiv)[0].onclick();
+      }).then(function () {
+        dialog.destroy();
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
 });
diff --git a/frontend-js/src/test/js/helper.js b/frontend-js/src/test/js/helper.js
index 351c01ae74e9af18472876c3471ac601e577d94c..05ac27517cc12b4e57a57dfa2dc62f2f8000e259 100644
--- a/frontend-js/src/test/js/helper.js
+++ b/frontend-js/src/test/js/helper.js
@@ -505,8 +505,6 @@ Helper.prototype.triggerJqueryEvent = function (element, eventType) {
           var event = events[j];
           var eventTargets = $(event.selector, domElement);
           for (var k = 0; k < eventTargets.length; k++) {
-            console.log(element);
-            console.log(eventTargets[k]);
             if (element === eventTargets[k]) {
               promises.push(event.handler.call(element))
             }
diff --git a/frontend-js/testFiles/apiCalls/genomics/taxonomies/9606/genomeTypes/UCSC/versions/hg38/token=MOCK_TOKEN_ID& b/frontend-js/testFiles/apiCalls/genomics/taxonomies/9606/genomeTypes/UCSC/versions/hg38/token=MOCK_TOKEN_ID&
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d6e3f651ae1e7ccd4ce1a774931527624d8eeb9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend-js/testFiles/apiCalls/genomics/taxonomies/9606/genomeTypes/UCSC/versions/hg38/token=MOCK_TOKEN_ID&
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"downloadProgress":100.0,"geneMapping":[],"idObject":1563,"localUrl":"../minerva-big//5280/hg38.2bit","organism":{"annotatorClassName":"","descriptionByType":"","descriptionByTypeRelation":"","id":927074,"link":"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=9606","resource":"9606","type":"TAXONOMY"},"sourceUrl":"ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/hg38.2bit","type":"UCSC","version":"hg38"}
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