"Join species" merges several similar species into one species.
All database fields and the sequences get concatenated.
Mark all species that should be examined for similarity.
Select a database field entry from the list
to set a similarity-criterion used to detect
candidates for joining (for e.g., full_name).
Check seperators for fields and sequences.
Press GO to start.
EXAMPLES
For example you have a 23s and a 16s database and you want
to append the 16s to the 23s sequences than you have to do:
merge the 16s to the 23s sequences.
create a field 'species_name' which holds the
real name of the species.
That means the species_name of the 16s sequence
should be the same as of the 23s seq.
Do not use the 'names' field because it is
used as a UNIQUE id to the database.
ARB_NT/Species/Merge Species/Join Marked Species
and use the field 'species_name'.