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Main topics: ARB: a Short Introduction Glossary | Related topics: What are Species ? What are Genes ? What are Gene-species? Marking Organisms
# What are Organisms? OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### Everywhere
## DESCRIPTION
### An Organism is a special kind of species. ### It contains the whole genom sequence of a micro-organism in an alignment called 'ali_genom'. The sequence stored in that alignment has to be unaligned (=no gaps). ### Further it contains information about genes. ### Organisms do not occur in a normal ARB database (i.e. a 16s database). To work with organisms you have to import a genome-flatfile into a new database.
## NOTES
### To create alignments of genes you need to create gene-species.
## EXAMPLES
### None
## WARNINGS
### None
## BUGS
### No bugs known