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FABA 1.6 Brief Instructions
     1. Check system requirements. Please make sure your computer has a minimum of 64 Mb of memory and Gbs of free hard drive space. FABA 1.6 demo can run on system with less memory and hard drive space, but if you intent to use it frequently then installing on the best computer in your lab will save you time in the future.
     2. Download FABA 1.6 from www.ChangBioscience.com. Please download the install file appropriate for your computer platform. Installers are available for Windows/NT and Mac OS X. Please contact us if you have other systems such as Linus and Unix.
     3. For Mac OS X, uncompress the installer file by double clicking on the install.zip icon. A new install icon will appear after the file is uncompressed by Stuffit.
     4. Start installation by double click the install icon. Mac OS X users, please make sure your system is not in the Classical Environment.
     5. Follow the instructions of the install program to install the program.
     6. If the installer can not start, please check whether you have completed the download. Check the installer’s file size. You may need to download again or request a CD from Chang Bioscience.
     7. Windows/NT users may experience an additional problem. The installer needs JAVA to start. Most computers already have JAVA JRE installed. Occasionally a few computers have not installed JAVA or need an upgrade. Please visit the following site to install JAVA JRE first:
     http://java.com/en/index.jsp
     8. After successful installation of FABA, users may start the program and view pre-run results.
     9. Start FABA. Select a project and click on “Go”. A new window will appear.
     10. Select from the history pull down menu (right to the "Go" button) a previous result. The results will appear in a new window.
     11. The demo version does not include data necessary for running your own query. Please request a free data CD from Chang Bioscience by emailing to info@changbioscience.com. The data CD contains expression data of more than 3,300 microarrays for human, mouse, and yeast.
     12. After receiving the data CD, follow the instructions to import data (see also page 21).
     13. You’ll then be able to run your own query and add your own or new public data. You don’t need the data CD if you would like to start a new project. Detailed instructions are listed elsewhere in this manual.
     14. Please purchase a license before the demo license runs out so your work will not be interrupted.
     15. We hope you will enjoy the FABA software, please don’t hesitate to ask us if you have any questions. Although priorities will be giving to answer questions of licensed users, we’ll attempt to answer all questions as soon as we can. Any suggestions and critics will be greatly appreciated.
     16. Please join the FABA discussion forum to share your experiences with others. To join, please visit:
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fabagroup/.