SILVA: Latest News

Happy Summer

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:37:00 +0200

The SILVA Team wishes you a nice summer break. Stay tuned for new features coming soon.

SILVA outtages

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:52:00 +0200

Yes, SILVA has been offline. In a week we would have reached two years of continuous uptime, but on Monday at 10 AM GMT our whole data center went down.

We had thought to be well prepared for the expected power outages during the yearly maintenance of the electrical systems at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen. By the time we noticed something was going wrong, our racks were already cooking at >95 �C. Somewhere in the catacombs beneath us, the pumps circulating the coolant had lost power. It took less than five minutes for the first servers to crash.

Todays outage was an indirect consequence. We're still repairing things and hardware that has been brought to the edge by the heat is continuing to fail.

We apologize for any inconveniences our down time may have caused you and hope that you will bear with us as we continue to try keeping the web site and its services running.

SILVA 103 released on the website

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:45:00 +0200

The website has been updated to release 103. The next full release will be SILVA 104.

Interesting arcticle about lack of funding for databases

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:08:00 +0200

Results of the SILVA 2.0 survey are now available online

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:54:00 +0200

Many thanks fro the nice comments - they are really encouraging.

SILVA user survey has been closed

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:46:00 +0200

145 responses in 16 days! Many thanks to all of you.

Survey towards SILVA 2.0

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:21:00 +0100

Please help us in building the next generation of SILVA by taking part in our survey. One minute of...

Problems with ARB/SILVA hardware requirements?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:14:00 +0100

Have a look at the table compiled by Ribocon.

Non-redundant (NR) SILVA SSU Ref 102 data set released

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:56:00 +0100

The rapid growth of sequences data tones down the individual capacities to handle them in a reasonable time frame. To compensate this SILVA now offers a nonredundant version of the SSURef 102 dataset. The new SSURef NR contains only around 50% of the sequences compared to the full SSURef 102. Although significantly reduced it is still a representative dataset with a high quality alignment, a fully classified tree and sequences from all three domains of life. More information ...

New SILVA beta now available for testing

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:45:00 +0100

Check our new browse and search functions. Enjoy faster downloads and a better workflow.

SILVA 102 released

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:40:00 +0100

Finally we got it! Now over 1.4 MILLION aligned SSU & LSU sequences!

The SILVA Alignment is the Reference!

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:58:00 +0100

Pat Schloss compared three different rRNA alignments and SILVA has become the reference. Read...

Preview: SILVA Release 102

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:51:00 +0100

SILVA Release 102 with more than 1.4 million rRNAs is now scheduled for February 2010. Click on...

ARB/SILVA workshop fully booked - registration closed

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:36:00 +0100

We thank you for your overwhelming interest in our ARB/SILVA workshops! The course was again fully...

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

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:48:00 +0100

Registration is open!