Non-redundant (NR) SILVA SSU Ref 102 data set released

A representative reference set of "only" 262k sequences!

The rapid growth of sequences data tones down the individual capacities to handle them in a reasonable time frame. To compensate this SILVA now offers a nonredundant version of the SSURef 102 dataset. The new SSURef NR contains only around 50% of the sequences compared to the full SSURef 102. Although significantly reduced it is still a representative dataset with a high quality alignment, a fully classified tree and sequences from all three domains of life. More information ...