News Archive
03.09.2019 Update on SILVA Release 138
We are sorry to inform you that the SILVA Release 138 is delayed further and we have decided to release the SSU and LSU datasets separately to compensate for the delay. We estimate the SSU datasets to be available in October and the LSU datasets by the end of the year. This news article will give you some background information on the release.[more]
14.08.2019 The Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BIBI) is founded!
As an essential step in the process to obtain a sustainable solution for the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI), the Faculty of Technology of Bielefeld University founded the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BIBI). Read more in 17th de.NBI Quaterly Newsletter.
03.07.2019 SILVAngs now running on the de.NBI Cloud
As partners in the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) project, we are proud to announce that the SILVAngs service is now running on the de.NBI scientific cloud infrastructure. A 400 CPU cluster has been set up and is providing valuable compute power for your analysis projects.
27.06.2019 The 16th de.NBI Quaterly Newsletter published
Shortly before the summer break, we provide an addendum to the latest de.NBI Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 2/19. It presents new training activities and de.NBI-supported conferences that take place in the next three months.
17.02.2019 The 15th de.NBI Quaterly Newsletter published
Check de.NBIs new quarterly newsletter! This time with articles about the de.NBI office and ELIXIR meeting, BierDEcorded project, Oliver Stegle our new associated partner and many more.
31.01.2019 SILVA Release 138 further delayed
Dear SILVA community, we are very sorry, but the release of SILVA 138 will be delayed until approximately June/July 2019. The main reason is that we had to change several of our "third-party" data providers since the providers we used were not longer up-to-date. This caused the need for refactoring parts of the software pipeline, which took longer then expected. We are working with high pressure on the new release.[more]
19.12.2018 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
The SILVA Team wishes you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Many thanks for your support in helping us to improve SILVA and SILVAngs. Looking forward to see you again in 2019.
21.11.2018 The 14th de.NBI Quaterly Newsletter published
Content: de.NBI Industrial Forum - New de.NBI Website - de.NBI arcticle on Wikipedia - de.NBI/ GFBio Summer School 2018 and much more.
29.10.2018 UNITE database paper published in NAR!
UNITE (https://unite.ut.ee/) is a web-based database and sequence management environment for the molecular identification of fungi. It targets the formal fungal barcode—the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region—and offers all 1 000 000 public fungal ITS sequences for reference.
16.10.2018 WASABI - SILVA's spicy new feature
Interactively inspect the alignment and tree of your SILVA ACT results using WASABI. You can access WASABI though a new button in the SILVA Job Manager.