Geneticist Assistant Online Help : Geneticist Assistant Setup and Maintenance : Specifying your Geneticist Assistant Settings
Specifying your Geneticist Assistant Settings
When specifying the settings for your Geneticist Assistant installation, if you did not configure the server reference directory before the first time that you logged into Geneticist Assistant, at a minimum, you must create your server and client reference directories and specify their locations, and then download reference files to the client reference directory. You must also specify the global Quality Control (coverage) settings for your data. See:
Optionally, you can also:
• Configure your proxy server settings. See To configure proxy server settings.
• Edit the SoftGenetics license server settings. See To edit the SoftGenetics license server settings.
• Specify an encryption key for patient data. See To specify an encryption key for patient data.
• Specify the colors for highlighting variants of a specific pathogenicity in all the variant panes and variant sub-tabs. See To specify the highlighting colors for variants of a pathogenicity.
• Specify the font for column headers and/or column content. See
• Specify the same column display preferences for variants in all the variant panes and variant sub-tabs and/or clear the preferred settings for all the data tabs. See To apply shared preferences or to clear all tab preferences.
• Specify the preferred settings for variants, which determines how the information is displayed for variants in all the variant panes and variant sub-tabs, and/or clear the preferred settings for all the data tabs. See To specify variant preferences.
• Specify the requirements for all user passwords for Geneticist Assistant. See To specify the Geneticist Assistant password requirements.
• Specify your third-party settings. See To specify third-party (Alamut, IGV, OMIM) settings.