Species selections (=editor configurations)

ARB_NTREE/Species/Selections

Species selections basically are sets of species.

Technically the terms "species selections" and "editor configurations" (or simply "configurations") are synonymic. For a detailed description what is stored in an editor configuration see ´Editor configurations´.

You may use configurations to

• save/restore which species are currently marked (see ´What are Marked Species?´). Available operations are decribed below.
• start the sequence editor on a defined set of species (see ´How to start ARB_EDIT4´)
• highlight multiple configurations in the tree display using the 'Highlight in tree' button (see ´Highlight configurations in tree´)

This window provides several operations on configurations:

• STORE (save a (new) configuration)
• EXTRACT (= unmark all, then mark the species stored in the selected configuration)
• MARK/UNMARK/INVERT (mix currently marked species with those marked in configuration)
• COMBINE (unmarks all that are not in configuration. This does an intersection between the currently marked species and those from the selected configuration)
• DELETE (delete a configuration)
• RENAME (rename a configuration)

Each configuration has a comment which may be changed by editing the 'Comment' textfield. The 'Clear' button will remove the comment in two steps:

• first all dated log entries (1st click)
• then the rest of the comment (2nd click)

The configuration window is as well available via the button that shows the number of marked species in the top area of the main arb window.

        The number behind the species selections informs about the
number of species stored in each.

To test whether a selection contains the currently marked set of species, first check whether the number of marked species (displayed on the button in the main window) equals the number behind the selection in the list. If so, use the INVERT button and check the number of marked species again: if there are no marked species (=button is empty), the selection was equal, otherwise it wasn't. In any case click INVERT again to restore the previously marked set of species.

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Unfortunately we use the term 'configuration' for two things:

• configurations of settings/properties (as described in ´Property/settings configurations´)
• species-selections aka editor-configurations (as described here)

Please do not mix them up.

Also note that "Species selections" have nothing todo with the ´Selected species´.

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