A comprehensive on-line resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data.
SILVA provides comprehensive, quality checked and regularly updated datasets of aligned small (16S/18S, SSU) and large subunit (23S/28S, LSU) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences for all three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya).
SILVA are the official databases of the software package ARB.
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The SILVA ACT service combines alignment, search and classify as well as reconstruction of trees in a single web application.
SILVA ACT is available at: www.arb-silva.de/act
The SILVA Tree Viewer is a web application to browse and query the SILVA guide trees.
A technical preview is available at www.arb-silva.de/treeviewer.
The software package ARB represents a graphically-oriented, fully-integrated package of cooperating software tools for handling and analysis of sequence information.
The ARB project has been started almost 30 years ago by Wolfgang Ludwig at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, see www.arb-home.de.
SILVA is a member of the UniEuk project, a community-based project to achieve a universal taxonomic framework for Eukaryotes, focused primarily on protists. UniEuk is integrating information from relevant genetic markers and classical morphology-based data, validated by a comprehensive network of taxonomy experts.
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All data is freely available for academic and commercial use as long as SILVA is credited as original author and a link to the full license is provided.
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Great news today! SILVA is now part of the integrated data platform DSMZ Digital Diversity. This cooperation will guaranty the long-term sustainability of SILVA. We are now entering a transition phase to migrate SILVA to our new host the Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, which is one of the largest biological resource centers worldwide.
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SSU Parc |
SSU Ref NR 99 |
LSU Parc |
LSU Ref NR 99 |
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Minimal length | 300 | 1200/900 | 300 | 1900 | |
Quality filtering | basic | strong | basic | strong | |
Guide Tree | no | yes | no | yes | |
Release date | 27.08.20 | 27.08.20 | 27.08.20 | 27.08.20 | |
Aligned rRNA sequences | 9,469,124 | 510,508 | 1,312,534 | 95,286 |
Quast C, Pruesse E, Yilmaz P, Gerken J, Schweer T, Yarza P, Peplies J, Glöckner FO (2013) The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools. Nucl. Acids Res. 41 (D1): D590-D596.
For the taxonomic framework:
Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO (2014) The SILVA and "All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)" taxonomic frameworks. Nucl. Acids Res. 42:D643-D648