News Archive
08.08.2011 LTP 106 released
A new version of the "All Species Living Tree" has been released, based on SILVA 106. Check out the project website (link above) for more information ...
08.08.2011 Next regular ARB/SILVA Workshop ...
... in fall 2011! Extra session on sequence submission and related tools provided by the EBI. Register now![more]
15.07.2011 SINA alignment service updated
Improved alignment quality, all-new sequence search and classification, detailed tutorial and more.[more]
14.07.2011 Preview SILVA 108
We have started to prepare SILVA 108. Follow the link to get a first impression of the upcoming release.
04.07.2011 TestProbe 2.2 released
TestProbe version 2.2 has now been released. Many thanks for your feedback. New features include the TestProbe Mismatch Overview. Check it out.
02.07.2011 The Genomic Standards Consortium
A review about the Genomic Standards Consortium has been published in PLoS Biology. GSC is the home of the MIGS/MIMS/MIMARKS (MIxS) standards.
19.06.2011 TestProbe online again
A significantly improved version of TestProbe is now online for beta testing. We hope all performance issues have been solved. Please check and give us feedback.
12.05.2011 MIMARKS in Nature Biotechnology published
After three years of discussions with almost 100 experts the new Genomic Standards Consortium checklist for marker genes MIMARKS (Minimum Information about a MARKer gene Sequence) has been published in Nature Biotechnology.
11.05.2011 ARB/SILVA memory requirements table updated
Are you using the SILVA databases with the software package ARB? Then our updated table on the ARB/SILVA memory requirements could be of interest for you ...[more]