The File menu provides the means of reading genomes from the Zoo, and saving genomes in the Zoo. These functions are discussed in some detail under Help-The Zoo. By default, Read will open the Open File-Selection dialog, configured to access only genome files, which have the .gen extension (see below).
However, the Files of type: drop-down allows a choice between .gen files and .txt files:
When the .txt options is selected, the use has access to files that contain lists of genomes:
If the user selects one of the file lists, every
genome in the list will be loaded into memory.