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TITLE		Join species

OCCURRENCE	ARB_NT/Species/Merge Species/Join marked species

DESCRIPTION

            "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'.


NOTES		There's a second function to merge species: see LINK{merge_species.hlp}

                There's a special new function to concatenate alignments: see LINK{concatenate.hlp}

WARNINGS	'Join marked species' does only merge fields of type STRING, all other fields are skipped
                (taken from one of the joined species).

BUGS		No bugs known
