Arb is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data analysis. a central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.

the arb project (from the latin "arbor", a tree) is a joint initiative of the lehrstuhl fuer mikrobiologie http://www.mikro.biologie.tu-muenchen.de/ and the lehrstuhl fuer rechnertechnik und rechnerorganisation http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ of the technical university of munich.

this package provides headers and static libs needed to link against libarbdb.