News Archive
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]
24.08.2012 Classification ranks file for eukaryotic taxonomy
Taxonomic ranks mapping file for the new SILVA eukaryotic taxonomy is now ready! Please have a look at the ETWG project page for more information and for downloading the spreadsheet file.[more]
05.08.2012 ARB files of release 111 updated
Due to some missing data in the fields bio_material, country, pcr_primers and tax_xref_embl in the ARB datasets we updated all ARB files.
27.07.2012 SILVA SSU Ref NR 111 released
Also a new version of the non-redundant (NR) SSURef dataset based on SILVA 111 is available. Please note that you can now even restrict your searches in the web db to the current NR subset!
26.07.2012 SILVA 111 released
Finally it is done: SILVA 111 is released. 3,500,000 rRNA gene sequences and a heavily revised eukaryotic taxonomy.
26.07.2012 Primer evaluation tool Testprime released
TestPrime is a new tool that allows you to evaluate the performance of primer pairs by running an in silico PCR on the SILVA databases.[more]
23.07.2012 LTP 108 released
The 108 version of the "All Species Living Tree" has been released. Check the project website (link above) for more information ..
04.07.2012 SINA 1.2.11 released
Adds support for computing an identity value (align_ident_slv) and identity based output filtering.[more]