22.01.2010 Next regular ARB/SILVA Workshop March 8 - 11, 2010

Registration is open!

22.12.2009 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Many thanks to all of you for this productive year. The SILVA-Team

22.12.2009 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (copy 1)

Many thanks to all of you for this productive year. The SILVA-Team

16.12.2009 GSC, MIENS and SILVA at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2010 in Hawaii

07.12.2009 Great review about the Tree of Life by Norman Pace!

Most of the statistics are done based on the SILVA databases.

27.11.2009 SILVA 101 skipped, working towards SILVA 102

Expected release date of SILVA 102 is February 2010

23.11.2009 ARB and SILVA are now using Twitter. Follow us...

02.10.2009 The updated Living 'All-Species Tree' dataset is now available

Based on SILVA release 100, 750 new typestrains have been manually curated and added to the dataset.

17.09.2009 Search SILVA with Geographic-BLAST

Search the SILVA databases with the Geographic-BLAST server, provided by megx.net. GeoBLAST allows sequence based searches and visualisation of georeferenced rRNA entries on a worldmap.

04.09.2009 New ARB version released

The new ARB version 5.0 has now been released. This is a major step forward and we strongly recommend that you upgrade your systems. The 64 bit version can now even handle large datasets like the SILVA SSUParc database.