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# Partial sequences OCCURRENCE DESCRIPTION NOTES EXAMPLES WARNINGS BUGS ## OCCURRENCE
### General
## DESCRIPTION
### Species should contain an entry 'ARB_partial' specifying whether the associated sequence is a "full sequence" or a "partial sequence". ### If 'ARB_partial' is 1 then the sequence is considered partial. ### There's a special function to add partial sequences (see ´Add marked partial species´).
## NOTES
### There are several function to find and mark species with partial or full sequence in the Species menu.
## EXAMPLES
### None
## WARNINGS
### Partial sequences cannot be used to calculate trees. Currently this isn't forbidden, but highly unrecommended!!!
## BUGS
### No bugs known