SILVA
Welcome to the SILVA rRNA database project
A comprehensive on-line resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data.
SILVA provides comprehensive, quality checked and regularly updated datasets of aligned small (16S/18S, SSU) and large subunit (23S/28S, LSU) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences for all three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya).
SILVA are the official databases of the software package ARB.
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SILVAngs
Check out our new service for Next Generation Amplicon data
SILVA Tree Viewer
The SILVA Tree Viewer is a web application to browse and query the SILVA guide trees.
A technical preview is available at 
www.arb-silva.de/treeviewer
ARB
The software package ARB represents a graphically-oriented, fully-integrated package of cooperating software tools for handling and analysis of sequence information.
The ARB project has been started more than 15 years ago by Wolfgang Ludwig at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, see 
www.arb-home.de.
UniEuk
SILVA is a member of the UniEuk project, a community-based project to achieve a universal taxonomic framework for Eukaryotes, focused primarily on protists. UniEuk is integrating information from relevant genetic markers and classical morphology-based data, validated by a comprehensive network of taxonomy experts.
Citations
Quast C, Pruesse E, Yilmaz P, Gerken J, Schweer T, Yarza P, Peplies J, Glöckner FO (2013) The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools. Nucl. Acids Res. 41 (D1): D590-D596.
For the taxonomic framework:
Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO (2014) The SILVA and "All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)" taxonomic frameworks. Nucl. Acids Res. 42:D643-D648
SILVA Terms of Use/License Information
SILVA follows a dual licensing model. In short, browsing the content of the SILVA webportal (including results of the data analysis services) and deploying this information is free for all users. Any downloads provided are free for ACADEMIC users. Redistribution of these downloads or their derivates requires a reference to the official SILVA license terms. NON-ACADEMIC users need to acquire a SILVA Commercial License for utilisation of any downloads provided. For the full text and how to acquire a commercial license, please refer to the 
SILVA Terms of Use/License Information
Partners
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News
ARB SILVA review published
Our ARB SILVA review is now published as part of the de.NBI Special Issue: 25 years of serving the community with ribosomal RNA gene reference databases and tools.
The 8th de.NBI Quaterly Newsletter published
Highlights: The integration of Germany and the de.NBI into the European life-sciences infrastructure for biological information ELIXIR has been approved. The legal integration of the de.NBI partner projects into the network has been implemented by signing a new collaboration agreement between the 30 universities and research institutes participating in the de.NBI initiative.
Call for action for global coalition to sustain core data resources
Core data resources for the life sciences should be supported through a coordinated international effort(s) that better ensure long-term sustainability and that appropriately align funding with scientific impact.
The 7th de.NBI Quaterly Newsletter published
The Quarterly Newsletter Edition March 2017 contains information on two meetings, the 2nd Scientific Advisory Board Meeting and the de.NBI Plenary Meeting both organized last year in Berlin. Furthermore, the newsletter deals with series of interesting topics like interactions with ELIXIR, establishment of the de.NBI cloud and organization of two de.NBI summer schools in 2017. It also contains information on events like the Midterm Review and the de.NBI Symposium.
User satisfaction survey
SILVA is now part of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure de.NBI.
To evaluate and improve our quality of service we need your feedback. Please help us by participating in this short survey.
SILVA SSU / LSU 128 - full release
| SSU Parc | SSU Ref | SSU Ref NR 99 | LSU Parc | LSU Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal length | 300 | 1200/900 | 1200/900 | 300 | 1900 | ||
| Quality filtering | basic | strong | strong | basic | strong | ||
| Guide Tree | no | no | yes | no | yes | ||
| Release date | 28.09.16 | 28.09.16 | 28.09.16 | 28.09.16 | 28.09.16 | ||
| Aligned rRNA sequences | 5,616,941 | 1,922,213 | 645,151 | 735,238 | 154,297 |