In this section you will learn how to get started with the Biology Workbench; namely, opening an account, logging into your account, and creating a session (i.e. folder) to store your data.

Opening An Account
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Go to the Biology Student Workbench homepage in Workbench panel. Click on the link that says, "Registration". If you already have an account, go ahead and log into the program. If not, you need to open an account first.  It is free and it is available immediately. Once your account is created, you will be taken to another website Click on the link that reads Biology Workbench to go to the main page.

Starting a New Session
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There are a few different sets of tools supplied by the Workbench. They are Session Tools, Protein Tools, Nucleic Tools, Alignment Tools and Structure Tools (Alpha). For this tutorial, we will only concern ourselves with Session Tools, Protein Tools, and Alignment Tools. To maintain some organization in your research, you should create a new session for every new topic you research.
1. From the window highlight the line that reads Start New Session and click Run, You will be taken to another window
2. Type the name of the new session, for example, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, in the space provided and then click the Start New Session button You will be taken to another window.
3. The new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome session will appear right below your Default Session. You will be able to click back and forth between the default and SARS sessions easily. But remember, you are working on the SARS session, so make sure you have the ˇ§Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromeˇ¨ selected.

This tutorial will learn how to use the tools that will let you search the protein databases and analyze the protein sequences that you want to use. By clicking on the box that says Protein Tools at the top of the page, you will be brought to the Protein Tools homepage. It is Empty because you have not researched any specific protein sequences and saved them yet. To import a sequence means to save it for later use. By doing this, you will change the word empty to the name of the sequence that you imported.