News Archive
20.12.2013 Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year
With this "digital" Christmas Tree the SILVA Team likes to say Thank You to all of our users and supporters.
29.11.2013 Paper on SILVA and LTP taxonomy in NAR published
Today our paper explaining the background of the SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks has been published in Nucleic Acids Research.
24.11.2013 Meet SILVA & SILVAngs at the 2nd Thünen Symposium in Braunschweig
On December 11, 2013 the SILVA Team will present the SILVA and SILVAngs tools on the Soil Metagenomics Symposium in Braunschweig.
22.11.2013 SILVAngs released
SILVAngs is a new data analysis service for ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) amplicon reads from high-throughput sequencing (next-generation sequencing (NGS)) approaches.
14.11.2013 Job Opening Bioinformatician/Programmer in Bremen
Job opening in Bioinformatics/Programming at the Jacobs University Bremen. Deadline for applications December 6, 2013.
23.08.2013 SILVA 115 released
A nearly endless trip to get release 115 done. Highlights: Improved taxonomy, especially for the Eukaryotes, and ALL sequences in SILVA are now classified based on the SILVA taxonomy!
06.06.2013 Working towards SILVA release 115
Preparation of SILVA release 115 has started. SILVA 115 will be a full release with updated taxonomy and trees, as well as ARB files. The release is planned for July 2013.
03.03.2013 Meet ARB & SILVA at VAAM 2013
Talk to the ARB and SILVA developers at VAAM 2013 (10.03-13.03) in Bremen, Germany. Follow the link to see the sessions where you will find us.[more]
18.02.2013 LTP 111 released
Version 111 of the "All Species Living Tree" (LTP) has been released. Check the project website (link above) for more information ...