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Main topics:

- ARB: a Short Introduction
- Glossary
- What are Species ?

Related topics:

- What are Marked Genes ?
- Selected gene
- What are Gene-species?
- What are Organisms?
- GENE INFORMATION

# What are Genes ?

- DESCRIPTION
- NOTES
- WARNINGS
- BUGS

## DESCRIPTION

### One gene is one database entry containing subentries which describe the gene. Every gene belongs to a specific organism, but one organism may have many genes.

### Main (reserved) entries of a gene:

name, pos_begin, pos_end, complement, pos_joined, pos_begin1, pos_end1, pos_begin2, pos_end2, ... pos_uncertain, codon_start, transl_table

### See ´GENE INFORMATION´ for details about these fields.

## NOTES

### The main-sequence of a organism(species) is stored in the alignment 'ali_genom'. You should not change this alignment.

## WARNINGS

### The alignment 'ali_genom' should NOT contain any gaps!!!!

## BUGS

### No known bugs