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# PT_SERVER Administration OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### ARB_NT/ETC/PT Admin
## DESCRIPTION
### Allows you to start/kill and build/update 'PT_SERVER' databases. ### Select a 'PT_SERVER' and database from the menu displayed after pressing the button below the 'PT_SERVER' prompt. ### Start or kill the selected 'PT_SERVER' by pressing the corresponding buttons. ### Press the 'BUILD SERVER' button to export the current database to the selected 'PT_SERVER' database. ### In Genome Databases you may check the 'Gene server' toggle to build a PT-Server which is based on the sequences of the single genes (and intergene regions) of all organisms. ### Such a PT-Server allows to perform similarity searches and probe design/match for single genes (in opposite to whole genomes with a "normal" PT-Server). ### When designing probes with such a gene PT-Server you always have to validate these probes against a PT-Server build upon complete genome sequences, otherwise you will get incorrect results for all probes matching at beginning/end of a gene.
## NOTES
### Read PT_SERVER: What Why and How if you do not understand this helptext. ### The probe designing and matching tools ('ARB_PROBE') and the aligner of the editor ('ARB_EDIT4') rely on 'PT_SERVER' databases and servers. ### Update (re-build) the 'PT_SERVER' database when new sequence (species) entries or sequence modifications (base changes) have been introduced into the current database.
## EXAMPLES
### None
## WARNINGS
### None
## BUGS
### No bugs known