Delete old names file
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After using the nameserver for a while, the names database
may contain several entries which are used nowhere.
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This happens e.g. if you've changed accession numbers during
your data curation or if you had species in one of your database
which you don't store anymore.
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To get rid of these unused names click 'Delete old names file'.
Your names database will be deleted and names will be regenerated.
Edit names file
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The names database is a simple text file, which may be modified
with a texteditor.
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Use this feature with care!
Remove ARB_XXXX entries
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ARB automatically generates accession numbers if they are missing.
e.g if you import plain sequence data.
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Use this to get rid of all nameserver entries using ARB_xxx accession
numbers.
Additional species ID field
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If you have good reasons, why you have to keep several species
with identical accession numbers in your databases, you'll normally
get problems with the ARB nameserver, because it handles these species
as "identical" and gives them names like 'HalHalob.2', 'HalHalob.3' etc.
to mark them as duplicates.
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Here you can specify an additional DB-species-field, which will be used
for species identification in addition to 'acc' (accession number).
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This setting is database-specific - so you have to set it for each database
where it's needed.
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For each field you use, a separate name server will be generated.
That means:
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You have to add a new entry into arb_tcp.dat (except for field 'start'
where a predefined entry exists)
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Names between database using different additional fields (or no add.
field) are NOT compatible. To merge such databases, change this setting
such that both databases use equal additional fields and generate new names.
Otherwise you'll most likely merge the data of non-equal species, which will
corrupt your data!
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