Due to cooling problems we had a system outage today. It is mostly solved, but some services might still be affected.
Dear SILVA-Community, many thanks for testing the new tool TestProbe. Unfornunately the amount of request has outcompeted our server capacities. We are currently working on this and hope to have the service online again at the end of this month. Sorry for the inconveniences.
Finally, we also have updated the non-redundant (NR) version of the SILVA SSU Ref dataset, now based on the SILVA 106 release. The nearly 1 million entries of the SSU Ref plus HSM/MWM datasets have been reduced to only 325k sequences using a 99% identity criterion.
TestProbe, a tool for Probe Match and Evaluation against the SILVA datasets, is now available in beta stage on the SILVA beta webpage. Please give it a try and send us feedback.
The data deluge has delayed this release. Now offering over 2.2 MILLION aligned SSU & LSU sequences!
The Genomic Standards consortium has published a paper in the ISME Journal to emphasise that the adoption of easy-to-follow standards will vastly improve our ability to interpret data from genomes, metagenomes and marker studies.
A brand new version (104) of the "All Species Living Tree" has been released. Check what's new on the project website...
Standards in sequence analysis and data reporting are becoming increasingly important. SILVA and Megx are active members of the Genomic Standards Consortium. If you want to know more, come to our next meeting at the EBI in Hinxton, UK. Registration is still open!
Exponential growth can be fascinating: Lots of new sequences - over 2 million SSUs and LSUs now! Release of SILVA 106 is expected for mid March 2011.
We have updated the non-redundant (NR) version of the SILVA SSU Ref dataset based on the SILVA 104 release. It still contains "only" 290,603 sequence entries including the HSM project ...