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To add new connection click on the Add button. The following dialog appears:

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Here you have to specify Host (IP-address of the server), Port (number of the port used by the MySQL server) and Database (name of the database). You may also fill Login and Password fields. Otherwise, you are asked to input them every time you are establishing this connection until you check the Remember me box. Click on the OK button and the connection is created and the appropriate item appears in the previous Shared Database Connections dialog.

Later on If you can want to use this already existing connection to access the database. To initialize the database select it in the list of connections and click on the Connect button. The database will be initialized. choose the desired item in the Shared Database Connections dialog and press the Connect button. If the specified database is empty, UGENE has to initialize it. This routine is done only once. In this case you get an appropriate message box, asking whether to initialize the database or not. If you choose Yes the database is populated with UGENE data structures, if No it remains empty and UGENE does not connect to it.

If you want to delete the some connection select the connection and it in the Shared Database Connections dialog and click on the Delete button. To You may also edit the connection select it and click on the connections using the Edit button. To connect to the database select it and click on the Connect button. To disconnect to the database click on the corresponding

 An established connection can be terminated by pressing the Delete button.