News Archive
Thursday 04. of March 2010 Nonredundant SILVA SSURef 102 dataset released
The rapid growth of sequences data tones down the individual capacities to handle them in a reasonable time frame. To compensate this SILVA now offers a nonredundant version of the SSURef 102 dataset. The new SSURef NR contains only around 50% of the sequences compared to the full SSURef 102. Although significantly reduced it is still a representative dataset with a high quality alignment, a fully classified tree and sequences from all three domains of life.
Sunday 28. of February 2010 New SILVA beta now available for testing
Check our new browse and search functions. Enjoy faster downloads and a better workflow.
Monday 22. of February 2010 SILVA 102 released
Finally we got it! Now over 1.4 MILLION aligned SSU & LSU sequences!
Friday 29. of January 2010 The SILVA Alignment is the Reference!
Pat Schloss compared three different rRNA alignments and SILVA has become the reference. Read more...
Friday 29. of January 2010 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.