gsAmplicon [<advanced options>]

The gsAmplicon command supports 3 advanced, optional, command line parameters. The typically most useful of these is the “--cpu” option that can accelerate computation through the use of multiple processors. These advanced options are the same as those available to the command line interface and are documented in detail in section 3.3.2.1 (Note: the gsAmplicon command shares only the “advanced options” of the command line interface, not the other “basic options”).

This will open the AVA GUI application main window in its Overview tab (Figure 1‑1). [A splash screen identifying the application and its version number will be displayed briefly (not shown); you can also view this splash screen at any time, after launching the application, by clicking on the “About” button.] Until a Project is open, the Overview tab provides a brief textual description of the AVA application’s usage and capabilities. There are two ways to open a Project at this point: you can create a new Project by clicking on the “New” button, or you can open an existing Project by clicking on the “Open” button (see section 1.1.3.1). Note that if you do not have write-permission to the Project folder, or if another user already has it open, you can open the Project as “Read-Only”, but you will be unable to save any changes or carry out any computations (which requires writing to disk). See section 4.1 for more details on this kind of situation.