22.02.2011 Sneak preview on SILVA release 106

Exponential growth can be fascinating: Lots of new sequences - over 2 million SSUs and LSUs now! Release of SILVA 106 is expected for mid March 2011.

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12.02.2011 New SSU Ref NR 104 released!

We have updated the non-redundant (NR) version of the SILVA SSU Ref dataset based on the SILVA 104 release. It still contains "only" 290,603 sequence entries including the HSM project ...

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01.02.2011 MIENS standard renamed to MIMARKS

The contextual (meta)data standard MIENS, issued by the Genomic Standards Consortium, has been renamed to MIMARKS (Minimum Information about a MARKer gene Sequence). The new name was created to better reflect the purpose of the standard.

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01.02.2011 ARB memory requirements for SILVA datasets updated

Please check our updated ARB/SILVA memory requirements table to get an idea which dataset can be handled by your computer.[more]

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