Quickstart

Torrent Suite Software space on Ion Community

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Check out the Plan > Templates tab in the Torrent Browser. See which applications and pre-install product templates might be helpful for your work. Click the Review link for templates to see what kits and references they use.

Try out the template wizard (click Add New Template to start with a generic application template or Copy to start from an existing template). Walk through the wizard to become familiar with its organization, menus, and options. You can cancel at the end or save your work.

Documentation

Use these suggested references to learn more about your Torrent Server and Torrent Suite Software. These documents describe the system functionality in detail.

Administrator Documentation

Torrent Suite™ Software Administration Guide

Administrator documentation describes how to set up and maintain your Torrent Server. It also includes information on working directly with the database, which involves working with user configuration and run parameters.

User Documentation

In addition to this quickstart guide, user documentation includes the following kinds of documents:

Torrent Browser User Interface Guide The user interface guide describes the Torrent Browser interface features, including how to use them and how they relate to the function you want to perform.
Torrent Browser Analysis Report Guide The analysis report guide gives a detailed description of the default analysis report. This guide also contains information about the Torrent Suite Software plugins, including the Torrent Variant Caller:
- Run the Installed Plugins
- Torrent Variant Caller Plugin
Use Cases This set of documents describes how to perform common operations in your day-to-day work with Torrent Suite Software.
Technical Notes and Whitepapers These documents elaborate on particular topics, providing a significant, in-depth presentation of each topic.

The Ion Community

The Ion Community has many user resources. Visit the following pages:

The Torrent Suite space ( http://ioncommunity.lifetechnologies.com/community/products/torrent_suite )

Especially recommended are the overview and documents in the Best Practices area.

http://ioncommunity.lifetechnologies.com/community/products/torrent_suite/best_practices

Torrent Browser functionality

Explore each of the Torrent Browser interface tabs as a hands-on way to learn more about the system:

Plan Enter your Ion S5, Ion PGM, or Ion Proton Sequencer run information in advance, reducing hands-on instrument time and allowing an opportunity to print and review your run information.

Under Plan are tabs for Templates, Planned Runs, and Plan by Sample Set:
- Templates R eusable experiment designs. Design details include the application, laboratory kits, reference, target regions files, hotspot files, project, and the export destinations for results files. Your templates serve as a digital version of your protocol from these you create planned runs as necessary.
- Planned Runs E xecutable instructions for individual sequencing runs. You create a planned run from one of your templates (or from a pre-installed template).
- Plan by Sample Set Pre-populate sample set information into your run plans. Intended forIon Reporter Software users.
Monitor View the progress of your instrument runs in real time.

Data Search and review all of your instrument runs or drill down to see your run reports.

- Completed Runs & Reports Access a run report, download a result set, reanalyze a run, add a run to a project, launch a plugin on a completed run.
- Projects Group your result sets into projects for convenient access and data management. Export result sets to other systems for further analysis. Archive or prune results sets.

Quickstart

Introduction

On Dataflow

File Sizes for Earlier Versions of Torrent Suite™ Software

Start a Run

View Runs and Reports

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