To use the Project Log to create multiple new projects
1. Do one of the following:
• On the NextGENe main menu, click Process > Project Log Viewer.
• Open the Project Wizard, and in the upper right corner of the wizard, click Show Project Log.
The Log View window opens. If you opened the Log View window from the main menu, then the Project Wizard also opens. If the Project Wizard does not contain a project, the Log View window is blank; otherwise, the Log View window is populated with the settings from the current/last run project in the Project Wizard.
2. Optionally, click New to clear all the settings from the current/last run project in the Project Wizard.
3. Create a project:
a. In the Project field, enter a descriptive name for the project. (If you intend to run this project at a later date, make sure that the name clearly identifies that project so that you can easily locate the project when needed.)
b. In the Sample field, leave the current settings as is, or click Load to select a different sample file.
c. In the Reference field, leave the current settings as is, or click Load or Preloaded as appropriate to select a different reference file.
d. In the Configuration field, click Save As to save the current settings in the Project Wizard to a configuration file and load this file for the project, or click Load to select a different configuration file.
 | This configuration file includes the settings for all selected steps in the Project Wizard, which can include sequence condensation, sequence assembly or sequence alignment, and post-processing. |
e. In the Output field, leave the current settings as is, or click Browse to select a different output location.
4. Do one of the following to add more projects:
• Click Add Project. A second blank tab labeled Project2 is added to the Log View window.
• Click Duplicate. A second tab labeled Project2 and populated with all the information from the Project1 tab is added to the Log View.
| | The project settings are duplicated for the project that is open when you click Duplicate. For example, if you have created Project1 and Project2, and you want to create Project3, you do so either by clicking Duplicate on the Project1 tab (which duplicates the settings for Project1), or by clicking Duplicate on the Project2 tab (which duplicates the settings for Project2). |
| | To remove a project in its entirety, open the project tab, and then in the PROJECT pane, click Remove. |
6. Do one of the following:
• To run all the projects immediately in the order in which you created them, click Run.
• To save all the projects to a NextGENe job file that you can run at a later date, click Save or Save As, and then go to To run a saved job file.