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Main topics:

- ARB: a Short Introduction
- Glossary

Related topics:

- What are Species ?
- What are Genes ?
- What are Gene-species?
- Marking Organisms

# What are Organisms?

- OCCURRENCE
- DESCRIPTION
- NOTES
- EXAMPLES
- WARNINGS
- BUGS

## OCCURRENCE

### Everywhere

## DESCRIPTION

### An Organism is a special kind of species.

### It contains the whole genom sequence of a micro-organism in an alignment called 'ali_genom'. The sequence stored in that alignment has to be unaligned (=no gaps).

### Further it contains information about genes.

### Organisms do not occur in a normal ARB database (i.e. a 16s database). To work with organisms you have to import a genome-flatfile into a new database.

## NOTES

### To create alignments of genes you need to create gene-species.

## EXAMPLES

### None

## WARNINGS

### None

## BUGS

### No bugs known