In an analysis, a processing step is a step where the application runs a processing workflow on the input files. An analysis can contain more than one processing step. You can use additional processing steps to process one set of input files differently from another set of input files. For example, you can run a Percolator validation separately on a set of files, such as the replicates of the control group and the replicates of the treatment group.

Task

Procedure

Add multiple processing steps

Procedure

  1. In an open analysis window, select Add on the title bar of the Child Steps area.
  2. A new processing step without a workflow appears.

Duplicate an existing processing step and its workflow

Procedure

  1. In an open analysis window, select Clone on the title bar of the Processing Step area.
  2. Another window with a child step opens. You can define a different processing workflow for the same file or a different file.

NOTE

If you are increasing the number of processing steps, verify that you can run more processes in parallel. See Specify the number of workflows to execute in parallel.