SILVA
Welcome to the SILVA rRNA database project
A comprehensive on-line resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data, free for academic use.
SILVA provides comprehensive, quality checked and regularly updated datasets of aligned small (16S/18S, SSU) and large subunit (23S/28S, LSU) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences for all three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya).
SILVA are the official databases of the software package ARB.
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ARB
The software package ARB represents a graphically-oriented, fully-integrated package of cooperating software tools for handling and analysis of sequence information.
The ARB project has been started more than 12 years ago by Wolfgang Ludwig at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, see 
www.arb-home.de.
The MEGX.net data portal
Visit our partner site 
www.megx.net, the data portal for Marine Ecological Genomix, to get a feeling how your research can be improved using integrated databases.
Citation
Pruesse, E., C. Quast, K. Knittel, B. Fuchs, W. Ludwig, J. Peplies, and F. O. Glöckner. SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB. Nuc. Acids Res. 2007; Vol. 35, No. 21, p. 7188-7196
SILVA Terms of Use
The SILVA Databases and Tools on this web portal are free for academic use. 
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If you are interested in the usage of SILVA within a non-academic/commercial environment, please send an e-mail to:
contact(at)arb-silva.dePartners
Please visit our partners. They facilitate the SILVA database project.
News
Latest News
The SILVA Alignment is the Reference!
Pat Schloss compared three different rRNA alignments and SILVA has become the reference. Read more...
Preview: SILVA Release 102
SILVA Release 102 with more than 1.4 million rRNAs is now scheduled for February 2010. Click on more to see the first statistics.
ARB/SILVA workshop fully booked - registration closed
We thank you for your overwhelming interest in our ARB/SILVA workshops! The course was again fully booked within just 48h!
Release information for SILVA 100
| SSU Parc | SSU Ref | LSU Parc | LSU Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal length | 300 | 1200/900 | 300 | 1900 | ||
| Quality filtering | basic | strong | basic | strong | ||
| Guide Tree | no | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Release version | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
| Release date | 01.08.09 | 01.08.09 | 01.08.09 | 01.08.09 | ||
| Aligned rRNA sequences | 995,747 | 409,907 | 161,017 | 14,426 |
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