News Archive
15.07.2011 SINA alignment service updated
Improved alignment quality, all-new sequence search and classification, detailed tutorial and more.[more]
14.07.2011 Preview SILVA 108
We have started to prepare SILVA 108. Follow the link to get a first impression of the upcoming release.
04.07.2011 TestProbe 2.2 released
TestProbe version 2.2 has now been released. Many thanks for your feedback. New features include the TestProbe Mismatch Overview. Check it out.
02.07.2011 The Genomic Standards Consortium
A review about the Genomic Standards Consortium has been published in PLoS Biology. GSC is the home of the MIGS/MIMS/MIMARKS (MIxS) standards.
19.06.2011 TestProbe online again
A significantly improved version of TestProbe is now online for beta testing. We hope all performance issues have been solved. Please check and give us feedback.
12.05.2011 MIMARKS in Nature Biotechnology published
After three years of discussions with almost 100 experts the new Genomic Standards Consortium checklist for marker genes MIMARKS (Minimum Information about a MARKer gene Sequence) has been published in Nature Biotechnology.
11.05.2011 ARB/SILVA memory requirements table updated
Are you using the SILVA databases with the software package ARB? Then our updated table on the ARB/SILVA memory requirements could be of interest for you ...[more]
09.05.2011 System outage this morning
Due to cooling problems we had a system outage today. It is mostly solved, but some services might still be affected.
06.05.2011 TestProbe temporarely offline
Dear SILVA-Community, many thanks for testing the new tool TestProbe. Unfornunately the amount of request has outcompeted our server capacities. We are currently working on this and hope to have the service online again at the end of this month. Sorry for the inconveniences.