Species selections admin

ARB/Species/Selections

ARB/<number marked button>

ARB_MERGE/Transfer selections/Edit selection

ARB_MERGE/Transfer species/<number marked buttons>

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 (=species selections)´.

You may use species selections 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 species selections in the tree display using the 'Highlight in tree' button (see ´Highlight species selections in tree´). Note: this button is not available when called from mergetool.

This window provides several operations on species selections:

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

Each species selection 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 species selection window is also available via the buttons, that show the number of marked species, located in the top area of the main arb window and in the ´Compare and Transfer Species Entries´ window (<number marked button>).

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

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:

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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