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Main topics: ARB: a Short Introduction Glossary | Related topics: Alignment Administration
# FORMAT ALIGNMENTS OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### ARB_NT
## DESCRIPTION
### Many functions of ARB expect all sequences of an alignment to be of the same length (Note: "length" doesn't mean "number of bases" here). ### Bringing all sequences to the same length (by adding gaps at the end of the sequence) is called "formatting". ### This prompt pops up whenever any alignment is unformatted and so provides an easy way to format your sequences.
## NOTES
### This function is also available in ´Alignment Administration´.
## EXAMPLES
### None
## WARNINGS
### None
## BUGS
### No bugs known