Opening a Project

1.4	Opening a Project

1.4.1 Creating a New Project

1.4.2 Open an Existing Project

1.4.1

Creating a New Project

To create a new assembly project, either click on the New Project button in the right toolbar, or click on the “New Assembly Project” text button in the Quick Start column. This displays a dialog (Figure 2) in which you can specify the name and directory location for a new project.

Type a name for the new project in the Name text field. To specify the project location, either type the full path in the Location text field, or click on the Open Project button to the right of the text field and use the “Select Project Location” window (not shown) to navigate to the directory where you want to create the new project. The Full Path field changes as you update the Name and Location fields. When you are satisfied with the location and name for the new project, click on the OK button. You can save a project by clicking on the Yes button to the Save prompt.

You may save the project to your hard drive either by using the Exit button to exit the GS De Novo Assembler application (you will be prompted to save before the application actually exits) or by adding read data and running the project by clicking the Start button (i.e., compute the assembly), in which case the project will automatically be saved prior to computation, as described in section 1.8.1, below.

The New Project dialog contains a drop-down menu (Figure 2) to specify the Sequence type indicating the type of DNA library sequenced, cDNA or Genomic. This choice of Sequence type determines many of the parameters the user will be allowed to modify in the project. Once a project is created the type cannot be changed.

Figure 2: New Project dialog used to specify Sequence type