The Quarterly Newsletter Edition March 2017 contains information on two meetings, the 2nd Scientific Advisory Board Meeting and the de.NBI Plenary Meeting both organized last year in Berlin.

Furthermore, the newsletter deals with series of interesting topics like interactions with ELIXIR, establishment of the de.NBI cloud and organization of two de.NBI summer schools in 2017. It also contains information on events like the Midterm Review and the de.NBI Symposium.

The new version of the "All Species Living Tree" based on SILVA release 123 for LSU and 128 for SSU has been released.

Many thanks to Tony Walkers for providing us with the QIIME 128 release files.