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= Manage database and storage =

* go to Settings -> Database status

here you can load the example data, or reset to database to its empty form.
empty means
 * the tables definitions are loaded in the database
 * users admin and anonymous are present
 * usergroups biologist and bioinformatician are present
 * permissions as defined in the gui.xml are loaded: this means which groups can see which screens and are allowed to write which entities

loading the example data (first set a storage path in File storage): now you have
 * example users 'bio-user' and 'bioinfo-user'
 * additional permissions loaded to give these users functional access to the database
 * example investigation, including
  * annotations for individual, chromosome, etc
  * geno/pheno dataset, tagged for QTL
  * Rqtl analysis ready to be executed

* go to Settings -> File storage

set a path and press Validate in order to get a location where xQTL can store files