C. Uploading/downloading files

Directories
When you logged into BioBIKE for the first time, you were given a directory of the same name as your login ID in which to store files. You can see what's in this space clicking the Browse Files button at the bottom of the listener. Your directory is born with two files:

arglist-data.js - Internal use only -- DON'T TOUCH IT!
biolisp.ini - Put here any statement you want to execute every time you log in.

You also have access to a directory called shared-files. You have access to your own directory. Everyone has access to the shared-files directory. BioBIKE provides many functions to get information in and out of these two directories.

Uploading files from your computer
BioBIKE statements can access only files in its directories, so if you want to use your own sequence or a large data set, you'll need first to upload the file to your directory. To do this, click on Upload file and navigate to the location of your file on your own computer. If you are uploading a text file from a PC, then click the box labeled "Convert Return\Newline -> Newline?", which tells BioBIKE to translate from the method used by PCs to store text files to the Unix method.

Downloading files to your computer
You may well generate results that you wish to transfer to your own computer. BioBIKE and BioBIKE provide functions to help generate files containing your results. All these files are kept in your subdirectory.

To download a file, click the Browse BioFiles button at the bottom of the listener, then Visitors, and finally your login ID. Find the file you want to download and click its name. You can then use your browser buttons to download the file to your own computer.

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