23.01.2013 SILVA 114 released as web-release

The SILVA web-databases - including all tools available on the website - were updated to EMBL-EBI release 114. The next full release will be SILVA 115.[more]

22.12.2012 Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

We would like to thank the SILVA community for their comments, help, greetings and criticism. We are looking forward to A Happy New Year 2013 with you. The SILVA-Team

29.11.2012 New SILVA paper published in NAR

The SILVA update paper has now been published in Nucleic Acids Research: "The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools"

07.11.2012 SILVA 113 released as web-release

The SILVA webdatabases - including all tools available on the website - were updated to EMBL-EBI release 113. [more]

07.11.2012 Server Maintenance on November 8th

On November 8th at 6PM local German time (UTC+1) maintenance work will be performed on our computation backend.[more]

01.11.2012 Important Update of the 16S rDNA Primer Evaluation Paper Published in Nucleic Acids Research

Unforntunately for the recommended group M Archaea primer a wrong primer pair was shown. The corresponding paragraph has been corrected. Please update to the latest version of the paper. [more]

23.10.2012 Website Update

Today we finally release a major update for TestProbe and the SINA aligner. We also refactored the way the submitted jobs are controlled by implementing a "TaskManager" and fixed some bugs to generally improve the speed and quality of service SILVA provides.[more]

27.09.2012 Server Maintenance on October 1st

File Exports, Sequence Alignment, TestProbe and TestPrime offline from 4 PM GMT (12 PM/Noon Eastern, 6 PM Germany).[more]

25.09.2012 Next regular ARB/SILVA workshop in November 2012 - Registration open!

29.08.2012 16S rDNA Primer Evaluation Published in Nucleic Acids Research

The results of the evaluation of general primers for 16S rDNA amplification have now been published in NAR. Many thanks for your support.[more]