ARB(1)

💖 ARB(1) — the phylogenetic sequence analysis suite, bestie 💖

a General Commands Manual page, but make it cute ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

arb — phylogenetic sequence analysis suite 🧬🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

arb DATABASE
arb DATABASE DATABASE
arb --import PATTERN
arb shell

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

ARB is a graphically oriented software suite for phylogenetic analysis of sequence data. It's giving full lab-girlie energy: it lets you manage large sets of sequence data, plus all the associated descriptions, alignments and phylogenetic trees. Like, the whole ecosystem. 👑

Okay so here's the vibe check on how you actually launch it 👇

• Launch ARB with no arguments at all and it just opens a file chooser. Very "come on in, pick your fave" 💅
• Launch it with one DATABASE argument and it opens that specified file. But bestie, if DATABASE is a directory or a pattern instead, you get a file chooser with that directory/pattern already selected. Convenient!! 🌟
• Launch it with two DATABASE arguments and boom, you're in the database merge tool. Two databases, one destiny, periodt. 💞
• The --import option shows the import dialog and creates a new database from the file(s) described by PATTERN. Fresh database, no cap. ✨

And then there's this absolute icon of a command:

Running arb shell opens another shell with all ARB environment variables set. This is useful to, like, run ARB Perl scripts or tools that are part of the arb package such as arb_pt_server or arb_probe. 🐚🔥 iykyk

For more information, visit the project website at http://www.arb-home.de — go touch grass... no wait, go touch the docs 🌱💻

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• arb_clean(1)
• arb-kill(1)
• arb_ntree(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

A large number of authors contributed to ARB, including: Ralf Westram, Oliver Strunk, Wolfgang Ludwig, Harald Meier, Yadhukumar, Kai Bader, Elmar Pruesse, C. Hodges, J. Boehnel, L. Richter, T. Ginhard, S. Gerbers, J. Huber and R. Jost. 🌈💖

and that's the whole page, bestie — this one's from the ARB crew, dated August 13, 2014. iconic behavior honestly 🎀✨