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 ...

The contextual (meta)data standard MIENS, issued by the Genomic Standards Consortium, has been renamed to MIMARKS (Minimum Information about a MARKer gene Sequence). The new name was created to better reflect the purpose of the standard.

Please check our updated ARB/SILVA memory requirements table to get an idea which dataset can be handled by your computer.