Maestro User Manual

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Schrödinger Press

Maestro User Manual

Maestro 

10.2 

User Manual

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Maestro User Manual Copyright © 2015 Schrödinger, LLC. All rights reserved. 

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May 2015

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Contents

Document Conventions

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Chapter 1: 

Maestro Overview

........................................................................................ 1

1.1  

General Interface Design

......................................................................................... 1

1.1.1  

Maestro Windows ............................................................................................... 2

1.1.2  

Mouse Functions................................................................................................. 2

1.1.3  

Keyboard Shortcuts and Shortcut Menus ........................................................... 3

1.1.4  

File and Directory Selection ................................................................................ 3

1.2  

Maestro Workflow 

..................................................................................................... 5

1.3  

Maestro Projects

........................................................................................................ 6

1.4  

Access to Applications

............................................................................................ 7

1.5  

Running Jobs

............................................................................................................. 9

1.6  

Citing Maestro in Publications

.............................................................................. 10

Chapter 2: 

The Maestro Main Window

.................................................................. 11

2.1  

Starting Maestro

...................................................................................................... 11

2.1.1  

Starting Maestro on a Windows Host................................................................ 11

2.1.2  

Starting Maestro on a Mac Host ....................................................................... 12

2.1.3  

Starting Maestro on a Linux Host ..................................................................... 12

2.1.4  

Choosing a Profile............................................................................................. 13

2.2  

The Main Window

.................................................................................................... 14

2.3  

The Menu Bar

........................................................................................................... 16

2.4  

The Main Window Toolbars

................................................................................... 17

2.4.1  

The Project Toolbar ........................................................................................... 20

2.4.2  

The Edit Toolbar ................................................................................................ 21

2.4.3  

The Workspace Toolbar .................................................................................... 23

2.5  

The Status Bar

......................................................................................................... 23

2.6  

The Sequence Viewer

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2.7  

Shortcut Menus

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