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Main topics: ARB: a Short Introduction Glossary | Related topics: Extract genes to gene-species Marking Gene-species What are Organisms? Define fields exported with gene species
# What are Gene-species? DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## DESCRIPTION
### In order to work with alignments of genes you first have to extract the wanted genes into some kind of pseudo-species. We called them 'gene-species'. ### These gene-species store additional information about the organism and the gene they originated from (ARB_origin_gene and ARB_origin_organism). They only contain that part of the whole organism-sequence the gene corresponds to. ### The intention is to create different alignments for different groups of genes and to calculate your trees using these alignment(s).
## NOTES
### It's possible to export these gene-species to a separate ARB database using the merge tool.
## EXAMPLES
### None
## WARNINGS
### None
## BUGS
### No bugs known