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# NOTES: universal dna OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES ## OCCURRENCE
### ARB_IMPORT
## DESCRIPTION
### This input format reader should read every sequence format, but: removes all other information maybe adds additional words to the beginning or end of the sequence ### The final ID of the species will be 'spec#', where '#' is a numerical number. You should 'Synchronize species IDs' as soon as possible. ### INTERNAL This format scans the file for long strings containing more than fifty percent ACGTUN-. characters. All other words are deleted.
## NOTES
### There is no autodetection of this format. No additional information is read. No alignment is preserved. Subsequences with more then 30% ambiguities are removed.