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Main topics: ARB: a Short Introduction Glossary What are Marked Species? Select an Alignment | Related topics: Export File Formats SPECIES INFORMATION
# Export Selected Species and Sequences OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### ARB_NT/File/Export Foreign Format
## DESCRIPTION
### Exports the selected 'alignment' of some or all 'species' in various formats. ### Choose the 'EXPORT FOREIGN FORMAT' option from the 'File' menu to display the 'ARB EXPORT' window. ### Select a formate from the corresponding subwindow. ### Choose whether to export all or only marked species. ### Choose a filter to export only selected columns. ### Select a compression method: 'none' preserves the alignment information 'vertical gaps' removes all columns containing only gaps 'all gaps' completely remove the alignment information ### Check 'Cut stop codon' to cut off the sequence at the stop codon. ### Define whether the data should be written to one or to multiple files by clicking on the checkbox after the 'Should the data be written to multiple files:' prompt. In the multiple file mode, each 'species' is written to its own file. ### Define an output file name by selecting from the 'Directories and Files' subwindow or by typing it to the 'Output File Name' subwindow. In the multiple file mode, the resulting filenames are created by appending the 'species name' to the specified output filename separated by underscores (filename_species name). ### Press the <GO> button ### EXPERT: The program reads the selected format (formats is $ARBHOME/lib/export/*.eft) and replaces all references to species information by the value of the reference. See ´Export File Formats´ for more information.
## NOTES
### The formates can be customized (see ´Export File Formats´) ### For a list of common database entries see ´SPECIES INFORMATION´.
## EXAMPLES
### None
## BUGS
### No bugs known