ARB wiki

Welcome to the ARB wiki.

• ARB is a software package for sequence data maintainance and analysis.
  More information can be found on the ARB homepage

Main Wiki topics

• Provide a BugReport
• Find and publish ArbDatabases
• Some ARB HowTos
• Subscribe to ArbMailingList
• Information for ArbDevelopers

You can as well SearchTrac

ARB versions

For instructions howto install precompiled binaries linked below, please refer to ​arb_README.txt, ​arb_INSTALL.txt and HowtoInstallArb.

We recommend to use the production version of arb:

• it is used by ARB at ​MPI,
• it contains recent features and bugfixes.

public releases

• our builds:
  • ​ARB releases (ChangeLog​)
  • ​ARB release candidates (RC) and other builds
• ​arb@debian (thx Andreas Tille)
• OSX MacPorts version (follow links on the arb download page)

Please note that the release version was branched from the production version in April 2014 and
does not contain any of the new features/fixes added since then (see below).

production version

• last update October 2018
  • List of changes​ since arb 6.0.x
• Linux: download ​recent manual builds for selected linux systems
• OSX: brew your own arb using ​homebrew-arb (thx to Jan Gerken from the ​SILVA team)

other versions (not recommended)

• ​ARB in launchpad (=latest ARB development build)
  (out-of-date, unstable and not working)
• ​older automatic builds up to April'17
  (last OSX binary build is provided here)

Some quick links

• TicketStats
• My tickets