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Last update on 08. Apr 2009 .
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What are Species ?

DESCRIPTION

One species is one database entry containing many database entries describing the species and one or more sequences (every sequence belongs to a different alignment).

A species is not necessarily consistent with a taxonomic species.

                          [Database field name]           [Comment]
                        

                          name                            Unique name for a species
                                max 8 characters long
                        

                          acc                             Accession number
                        

                          full_name                       Name for a species
                        

strain

author

journal

                          ali_16s/data                    a 16s sequence (part of the 16s alignment)
ali_23s/data                    a 23s sequence
ali_.../data                    a ... sequence
                        

The description of the alignment, e.g. type or length, is not stored in every species but in an alignment description.