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 service for Next Generation Amplicon data
SILVA Alignment, Classification and Tree (ACT) Service
The SILVA ACT service combines alignment, search and classify as well as reconstruction of trees in a single web application.
SILVA ACT is available at: 
www.arb-silva.de/act
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 almost 30 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.
SILVA Terms of Use/License Information
As of release 138 the SILVA databases, its taxonomy, and all files provided for download are licensed unter Create Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).
All data is freely available for academic and commercial use as long as SILVA is credited as original author and a link to the full license is provided.
Releases before SILVA 138 are not affected by the new license. Please refer to the license file provided in each download directory for the license associated with the provided files.
News
SILVA Release 138.2
The SILVA taxonomy release 138.2 is a maintenance release, with no additional sequences added to the ARB databases since the previous release 138.1. In this update we have focused on Prokaryotes.
SILVA named Global Core Biodata Resource (GCBR)
SILVA is one of fifteen biodata resources worldwide that have been selected in the Global Biodata Coalition's 2023 selection round for Global Core Biodata Resources (GCBRs), increasing the total number of GCBRs to 52. SILVA joins its DSMZ sister databases BacDive and BRENDA (both selected in 2022) as well as LPSN (2023) as GCBR.
We are hiring!
SILVA is looking for computer scientists as backend and web developer. Our colleagues from the DSMZ Digital Diversity integration team are also hiring for multiple positions. Find all open positions in our teams here.
We need you!
Open Jobs@SILVA! Become now part of the SILVA-team! Scientist Molecular Taxonomy, Softwaredeveloper backend Maven/Spring Boot, Softwaredeveloper Web
User satisfaction survey
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To evaluate and improve our quality of service we need your feedback. Please help us by participating in this short survey.
SILVA SSU 138.2 update release
| SSU Parc |
SSU Ref NR 99 |
LSU Parc |
LSU Ref NR 99 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal length | 300 | 1200/900 | 300 | 1900 | |
| Quality filtering | basic | strong | basic | strong | |
| Guide Tree | no | yes | no | yes | |
| Release date | 11.07.24 | 11.07.24 | 11.07.24 | 11.07.24 | |
| Aligned rRNA sequences | 9,469,070 | 510,495 | 1,312,521 | 95,279 |
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
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