Open a Dataset

This help section describes opening local and remote files. The remote sources and file types you can access are defined in the configuration settings.

Open a Local File

1. Right-click on the project node where the dataset is to be added.

2. Select Open File from the pop-up menu.

。 Note: From the main menu, you can open a dataset stored on a local or remote location, by selecting File -> Open -> File.

3. Confirm that the Local File radio button at the bottom of the window is selected.

4. Choose a file format from the "Files of Type" drop-down and then select the file to load.

Open a Remote File

1 Select from the available remote options.

2 Click Go.

。 If the remote server is online and accessible, the Open File popup window (see below) will be populated with the list of experiments available at that server.

3 Clicking on an experiment node display the associated experiment information in the corresponding display area. The number of assays included in the experiment is displayed in the Derived Assays field.

4 Right-click on the experiment node, choose Get bioassays.

。 The experiment listing is updated to reflect the number of derived assays as child nodes to the experiment selected.

5 Click on the assay of interest.

6 Click Open.