On December 29th between 9AM and 1PM (CET / GMT +1) custom download and alignment services will be down. Our IT department will be using the quiet times to upgrade our firewall. In the process, the connection between the SILVA web server and our cluster will be severed. Jobs submitted or running during the maintenance window will be queued and should be processed once the firewall comes up. If you job doesn't come through, kindly resubmit it after 2 PM. The SILVA team[more]
Many thanks to all SILVA users for their contributions, greetings and criticism. We wish you all a nice and productive 2011. The SILVA-Team
After two years of discussion, with more than 90 experts, the first version of the contextual (meta)data standard MIENS (Minimum Information about an ENvironmental Sequence) has been released. Please have a look and vote for it.
If you have tried to contact us by email in the last days, possibly you have received an error message. The problems are now solved and we are open again for your comments and questions. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Release is expected for beginning of October
A brand new version (102) of the "All Species Living Tree" has been released. Besides an updated 16S rRNA database a 23S rRNA database with 792 type strains is now also available