Prime User Manual - ISP

Chapter 2: Using Prime–Structure Prediction
for ascending order, twice for descending order. You can also export data from any table in
CSV or HTML format from the table shortcut menu.
Below the Step View are the Back and Next buttons, the primary way to navigate between
steps. You can perform a simple workflow by clicking Next after completing each step.
However, it is sometimes useful to go back to previous steps, make different choices, and
proceed forward again using the Next button or the Guide, explained next.
The Guide, below the Back and Next buttons, is a diagram of the Prime workflow as a series of
steps, each step represented by a button. The diagram branches to show the steps of both paths,
Comparative Modeling and Threading.
To hide the Guide, deselect the Guide check box in the Step menu.
The Guide has two purposes: to show your current location in the Prime–SP process, and to let
you navigate back and review or change the input at previous steps in the process. The current
step is highlighted in the Guide diagram. All previously accessed steps, forward or backward,
are available. You can go to any of these steps by clicking them in the Guide.
Clicking on an available step button in the Guide displays the panel for that step. If a step is not
yet available, its button is dimmed. Available steps include those that have already passed
through in the current run, the present step, and (once step-specific criteria have been met) the
next step beyond the current location. When the next step is available, clicking on it behaves
the same as clicking the Next button.
Note: You cannot launch searches and jobs by clicking the steps in the Guide. To launch
actions pertaining to a step, click the appropriate buttons within the step panel.
The Close button appears below the Guide on the lower left of the panel. To the right is the
Help button, which opens online help related to the current step.
2.3 The Prime Menu Bar
The Prime menu bar consists of four menus: File, Edit, Display, and Step. Some of the options
in these menus are also available as toolbar buttons.
2.3.1 The File Menu
The commands on the File menu for working with Prime runs (New, Save As, Rename, Delete,
and Open) are discussed in Section 2.1 on page 5. The menu also contains the commands
Export Sequences and Job Options. See Section 2.5 on page 14 for more information on job
options.
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