01.02.2009 SILVA 97 discarded

We omitted SILVA release 97 due to problems with the EMBL release. Next update is scheduled for March 2009. Sorry for the inconveniences.

22.12.2008 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Many thanks to all users and friends for support, help and suggestions. [more]

20.12.2008 Search now accepts lists of accession numbers

Just paste a list of accession numbers in the search field to retrieve all corresponding sequences. Example: AJ579313, AJ579330, AJ704632

21.11.2008 New Solutions for Contextual Data Integration

We have started a project on storage, handling and integration of contextual data (metadata). Learn why contextual data are of outstanding importance and which solutions we offer ....

07.11.2008 Successful ARB/SILVA tutorial at Metagenomics 2008

The SILVA Team likes to say thanks to John Wooley who invited us to give a presentation about ARB and SILVA on the international Metagenomics 2008 meeting in San Diego. It was a real pleasure to see you all in sunny California.[more]

03.11.2008 Webaligner upgraded to align up to 300 sequences

27.10.2008 The second release of the Living Tree Project now online

14.10.2008 SILVA 96 released

Another 86,000 SSU and LSU rRNAs!

08.10.2008 Contextual Data Fields Survey

The results for our survey on contextual data fields (metadata) assigned to every rRNA sequence are now available on the Genomic Standards Consortium Wiki pages.

30.09.2008 The Conference Proceedings of the rRNA Technology Workshop

have been published in Systematic and Applied Microbiology