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TITLE		Merge Similar Species

OCCURRENCE	ARB_NT/Species/Merge Species/Create merged species from similar species
                ARB_NT/Sequence/Concatenate Sequences/Alignments/MERGE SIMILAR SPECIES

DESCRIPTION

            "Merge Similar Species" creates new species by merging
            fields and alignments of several similar species.

            - Mark all species that should be examined for similarity.

            - Select a database field entry by clicking on the first
              button to set a similarity-criterion used to detect
              candidates for merging (for e.g., full_name).

            - Specify the new field name to which the "number of merged
              species" information is to be stored (e.g., merged_species).

            - Press "Merge similar species ..." to start.

SECTION     Merge and concatenate

            From LINK{concatenate.hlp} you can access a special flavor of the
            "Merge similar species" function, that will also concatenate the
            selected alignments.

            That version is useful after merging species of two (or more) independent
            databases, that contain different genes of the same organisms.

            After merging you'll end up with data like:

                  name           "SpecExe1"
                  full_name      "Species exemplares"
                  ali_5s/data    "--AC--GU--"

                  name           "SpecAlt1"
                  full_name      "Species alternatio"
                  ali_5s/data    "--AU-GGC--"

                  name           "SpecExe2"
                  full_name      "Species exemplares"
                  ali_16s/data   "----U-A---G-C-----"

                  name           "SpecAlt2"
                  full_name      "Species alternatio"
                  ali_16s/data   "----G-A---UUC-----"


            Using merge and concatenate with 'full_name' as similarity criterion,
            you can generate data like

                  name                 "SpecExe3"
                  full_name            "Species exemplares"
                  ali_5s_and_16s/data   "--AC--GU--XXX----U-A---G-C-----"

                  name                 "SpecAlt3"
                  full_name            "Species alternatio"
                  ali_5s_and_16s/data   "--AU-GGC--XXX----G-A---UUC-----"


NOTES		There's a second (older) function to merge species: see LINK{species_join.hlp}

EXAMPLES	None

WARNINGS	None

BUGS		No bugs known