The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue):D590-6.

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The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

Christian Quast et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan.

Abstract

SILVA (from Latin silva, forest, http://www.arb-silva.de) is a comprehensive web resource for up to date, quality-controlled databases of aligned ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences from the Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota domains and supplementary online services. The referred database release 111 (July 2012) contains 3 194 778 small subunit and 288 717 large subunit rRNA gene sequences. Since the initial description of the project, substantial new features have been introduced, including advanced quality control procedures, an improved rRNA gene aligner, online tools for probe and primer evaluation and optimized browsing, searching and downloading on the website. Furthermore, the extensively curated SILVA taxonomy and the new non-redundant SILVA datasets provide an ideal reference for high-throughput classification of data from next-generation sequencing approaches.

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Screenshot of the Taxonomy Browser showing TestPrime results for two universal primers for evaluation.

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