| 1 | # main topics: |
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| 2 | UP arb.hlp |
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| 3 | UP tags.hlp |
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| 4 | UP glossary.hlp |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | # sub topics: |
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| 7 | #SUB subtopic.hlp |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | # format described in ../help.readme |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | TITLE Determine data changes between databases |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | OCCURRENCE ARB_MERGE/Transfer Species/Source->Target/Compare a field of listed species... |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | DESCRIPTION Compares contents of a field (selected to compare) between same species in |
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| 17 | both databases. Information about found differences will be stored in |
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| 18 | the selected report field in both databases. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | Only species listed in the left hitlist of the 'TRANSFER SPECIES' window |
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| 21 | are examined. |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | If no differences are detected, the selected report field will be deleted |
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| 24 | from the species. |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | Comparison can be customized by the following parameters: |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | * tag/subfield |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | If a tag is specified, only the content belonging to that tag will |
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| 31 | be considered for comparison (see LINK{tags.hlp} for information about tagging). |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | * ignore characters |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | When specified, the contents of the field are modified before comparison, i.e. the |
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| 36 | given characters are removed from the contents. |
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| 37 | Nevertheless, the position(s) written to the report field are independant of |
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| 38 | ignored characters, i.e. they are absolute (sequence) positions. |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | * ignore case |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | When checked case differences are ignored. |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | If 'Try to correct field in target DB' is checked, ARB will accept and correct |
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| 45 | single(!) insertions, deletions and substitutions in the sequence data of the |
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| 46 | target database. |
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| 47 | A minimum amount of 10 matching bases is required between two distinct corrections, |
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| 48 | otherwise the correction will be canceled (and diff-info will be written to report field). |
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| 49 | Successful corrections are indicated by marking the affected species in the target database. |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | NOTES This function has been originally designed to |
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| 52 | determine sequence changes between different databases or database versions. |
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| 53 | Using it for other, non-sequence database fields works as well. |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | EXAMPLES None |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | WARNINGS Be careful: only select report fields, that don't contain any data. |
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| 58 | Existing data will be overwritten w/o further confirmation. |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | BUGS No bugs known |
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| 61 | |
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