News Archive
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 ...
09.02.2013 ARB & SILVA at Biosystematics 2013
Join us at the Software Bazar at Biosystematics in Vienna, February 18-22, 2013.
09.02.2013 SILVA Stickers have arrived!
If you like one - contact us. We are happy to ship them to you.[more]
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]