SINA is the tool we use to align our sequences. It is now finally available as a stand-alone package. Align and classify as many sequences as you want on your own computers.

The 12th workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium will take place from 28.09.2011 to 30.09.2011 at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen. Click on the Title for details.

On Sunday the 11.09.2011 we will have an estimated downtime of 5 hours for the maintenance of our web server.

The taxonomy of the Eukaryotes has some errors. Please wait until we provide an update in the next two weeks. We are sorry for the inconveniences caused.

It gave us a hard time - but now it's done: SILVA 108 is released.

2,700,000 rRNA gene sequences and still counting...