The results of the evaluation of general primers for 16S rDNA amplification have now been published in NAR. Many thanks for your support.[more]
Taxonomic ranks mapping file for the new SILVA eukaryotic taxonomy is now ready! Please have a look at the ETWG project page for more information and for downloading the spreadsheet file.[more]
Due to some missing data in the fields bio_material, country, pcr_primers and tax_xref_embl in the ARB datasets we updated all ARB files.