> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://biobase.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# BioBase

> BioBase is the Infera desktop app for analyzing research data in a folder on your own computer.

BioBase opens a folder on your computer as a project and gives you two tools over it: the Data Agent, which analyzes the files you point it at, and a terminal. Results land back in the same folder. Genome tracks, molecular structures, spreadsheets, arrays and reports open in viewers inside the app.

With backup off, the default for every new workspace, Infera Cloud doesn't keep your files or your conversation. To answer a request, the Data Agent sends your message and the contents of the files it reads to the model, and the code it writes runs in a cloud analysis environment. Turning on backup uploads the workspace folder to Infera Cloud.

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  <Card title="Install BioBase" icon="download" href="/getting-started/install">
    Installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, and how updates install.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Your first project" icon="folder-open" href="/getting-started/first-project">
    Open a folder, ask the Data Agent a question, open the result.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Viewers" icon="eye" href="/viewers/overview">
    Which file types open inside BioBase and what each viewer shows.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Where your data lives" icon="hard-drive" href="/your-data/where-your-data-lives">
    What stays on this device, what reaches the model, and what Infera Cloud keeps.
  </Card>
</Columns>


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