SILVA News https://www.arb-silva.de/news/ Latest news from SILVA en SILVA Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:12:37 +0000 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:12:37 +0000 TYPO3 EXT:news news-300 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:11:41 +0000 Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/happy-holidays-and-a-happy-new-year The SILVA team will be taking a break over the winter holidays. Our helpdesk will be closed from 19 December 2025 to 12 January 2026. We would like to wish all our users a Happy New Year and a peaceful festive season to those celebrating Christmas.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year ]]> news-299 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:24:37 +0000 New publication - SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/new-publication-silva-in-2026-a-global-core-biodata-resource-for-rrna-within-the-dsmz-digital-diversity Our new publication about the SILVA database has been published online by the NAR database issue: doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1247

New publication - SILVA in 2026: a global core biodata resource for rRNA within the DSMZ digital diversity ]]> news-298 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:33:00 +0000 Online workshop - SILVA in 2025: New design and upcoming release 144 https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/online-workshop-silva-in-2025-new-design-and-upcoming-release-144 The SILVA team offers an online workshop on 11 December 2025, 3pm to 5pm CET.

Online workshop - SILVA in 2025: New design and upcoming release 144 ]]> news-297 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000 New branding for the SILVA website and dataset DOIs https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/new-branding-for-the-silva-website-and-dataset-dois SILVA joined the DSMZ and the DSMZ Digital Diversity consortium at the beginning of 2023. This new affiliation is now also visible on our website. DOIs have been added for our datasets.

New branding for the SILVA website and dataset DOIs ]]> news-296 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:19:00 +0000 DSMZ Digital Diversity Workshop https://hub.dsmz.de/#/team we are happy to announce that this year's DSMZ Digital Diversity Workshop will take place on 11 November 2024, 2 - 4 PM CET online!

DSMZ Digital Diversity Workshop ]]> news-295 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0000 SILVA Release 138.2 https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/silva-release-1382 The SILVA taxonomy release 138.2 is a maintenance release, with no additional sequences added to the ARB databases since the previous release 138.1. In this update we have focused on Prokaryotes.

SILVA Release 138.2 ]]> news-294 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:44:00 +0000 SILVA named Global Core Biodata Resource (GCBR) https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/silva-named-global-core-biodata-resource-gcbr SILVA is one of fifteen biodata resources worldwide that have been selected in the Global Biodata Coalition's 2023 selection round for Global Core Biodata Resources (GCBRs), increasing the total number of GCBRs to 52. SILVA joins its DSMZ sister databases BacDive and BRENDA (both selected in 2022) as well as LPSN (2023) as GCBR.

SILVA named Global Core Biodata Resource (GCBR) ]]> news-293 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000 We are hiring! https://hub.dsmz.de/#/team SILVA is looking for computer scientists as backend and web developer. Our colleagues from the DSMZ Digital Diversity integration team are also hiring for multiple positions. Find all open positions in our teams here.

We are hiring! ]]> news-292 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:31:00 +0000 We need you! https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/we-need-you Open Jobs@SILVA!

Become now part of the SILVA-team!

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]]> news-291 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 12:10:00 +0000 SILVA website jobs available again https://www.arb-silva.de/news/item/silva-website-jobs-available-again The TestProbe, TestPrime, and ACT tools are available again as well as custom sequence exports. We continue to work on a cloud-based solution to prevent such long outages in the future. We are very sorry for the inconvenience it caused and thank you for your patience!

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