Start out with the webpage :

  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/biocore/

BiocoRE is a web-based collaborative environment useful for
research and traning.

Switch to:

  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/biocore/ss03/

You have a current version of this webpage in your handout folder.

BioCoRE is designed around the concept of secure projects.  The three
projects are:

SS03 Announce: Used for instructors to disseminate information to
students.  

SS03 Work: You can do your work here.  You can talk about science, etc.

SS03 Social: This project is for you.  You can say whatever you want here.


You are welcome to create your own projects.  Once you are logged into
BioCoRE, each BioCoRE webpage has a link in the left sidebar to create
projects.  If you create projects you can decide who you want to be
members.  Only people that you invite can see the project.


For starting BioCoRE you should log into the EWS machines, and from the
terminal, type in:

> tbss

and then you can type 'biocore'.

(biocore is a unix shell script that looks like the following:

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
#!/bin/csh

/usr/local/javaws/javaws http://biocore-s.ks.uiuc.edu/biocore/servlet/NewMain/applet=app\&webstart=yes
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------- #

This shell script requires Java Web Start 
( http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/ ) to be installed on the
machine.

Additionally, you need to already have an account with BioCoRE to be able
to start BioCoRE this way.  If you don't have a BioCoRE account, you need
to create an account from a web browser (instructions are at the
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/biocore/ss03/ website)


Log in as 'ss03demo'.  

From the Control Panel, click on the 'SS03 Social' tab.  Go to Project |
Project Summary and launch the Project Summary web page.  


Note in the left column that I can review project invitations.  This
means that I have been invited to a project and I can choose to join
the project by clicking that link.  So, I am going to add myself to
the 'SS03 Announce' and 'SS03 Work' projects.

Switch back to the Control Panel.  Each project has its own tab.  The
tabs can be used for chatting, notification, etc.  Note that the tabs
change colors when an important event has occured.

Switch back to the webpage.  Job Management can be used to submit 
computational jobs to supercomputers.  You can use this to submit your
jobs of an evening.  Instructions for doing this are in your handouts.

The message board can be used for sending long text messages.

The website link library can be used to tell other project members about
interesting websites.  We've added quite a few interesting sites to
the SS03 Social project.

Switch to the SS03 Work project.  Go to the BioFS and show that files
are available there for download.