ARB Databases

  • TIPS
  • If you download databases using windows, only download the .gz files! Otherwise the file will be corrupted.

A central directory of ARB databases available on the web can be found at ARB database central. We encourage you to share your work with others and to publish a link to your own database there.

Hardware Requirements (Linux)

Good We use
Real memory 1 Gb 4 Gb
Free discspace 1 Gb more
Computer speed 2 GHz Cpu 2 GHz Dual Cpu
  • NOTES
  • Memory is more important than a fast processor!

Copyrights

ARB software and documentation are copyrighted by Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, TU München. External software distributed together with ARB is copyrighted by their respective authors.

ARB and bundled software may be copied on a non-profit basis. Use is permitted for non-profit purposes. For usage conditions in commercial environments please read the detailed copyright notices.

Installation instructions

First, go through the readme file (arb_README.txt). Select the version and release which you would like to install from below. E.g., If you want a beta-Version and Linux release, select "Linux Beta 030822". Click on the respective link and download the following files :

arb_install.sh : Installation script
arb.tgz : ARB program

Once you have downloaded files to your hard drive, run "arb_install.sh" script and answer the queries to install the "ARB program". Happy ARBing !

  • TIPS
  • Do not uncompress and untar arb.tgz directly, instead, use the install script (arb_install.sh)!

ARB releases

Change log

  • TIPS
  • Linux-Requirements: A recent version of Linux (based on libc 6).

    To detect which version you have type 'ldd /bin/su'. If libc.so.6 shows up you have a version based on libc 6.

Latest builds

You may as well try one of the latest builds - but be careful:

These versions may be completely broken!

Make sure you read the notes!

Versions of ARB for other OS's ported and maintained by ARB users

Mac OSX: Ported and maintained by Ben Hines and Mike Dyall-Smith. See ARB to MacOSX for details. We included build instructions provided by Matt Cottrell into the ARB tarball (see arb_OS_X*.txt).

Debian Distribution: UNTESTED and/or EXPERIMENTAL version of ARB is available as Debian package and the same can be downloaded here.

Code

Please access the source using our SVN-repository or if you just wanna look, simply browse the source.

You'll also find a tarball (arbsrc.tgz) in every build.

  • NOTES
  • If you make changes to the source code and think the public should benefit from them, please send a diff against the latest SVN version (instructions howto do this can be found here).