SILVA is a

ribosomal RNA Ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) is a type of non-coding RNA which is the primary component of ribosomes, essential to all cells. rRNA is a ribozyme which carries out protein synthesis in ribosomes. Ribosomal RNA is transcribed from ribosomal ...

database established in collaboration between the Microbial Genomics Group at the

Max Planck Institute Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ...

for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, the Department of Microbiology at the

Technical University Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

, and Ribocon. Release 117 of the database (January 2014) held more than 4,000,000

small subunit In structural biology, a protein subunit is a polypeptide chain or single protein molecule that assembles (or "''coassembles''") with others to form a protein complex. Large assemblies of proteins such as viruses often use a small number of ty ...

(SSU - 16S/18S) and 400,000

large subunit In structural biology, a protein subunit is a polypeptide chain or single protein molecule that assembles (or "''coassembles''") with others to form a protein complex. Large assemblies of proteins such as viruses often use a small number of ty ...

(LSU - 23S/28S) sequences. Sequences are provided as files for the ARB software environment.

References

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Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology. Accessed November 2016.{{third-party inline, date=November 2016 Christian Quast, Elmar Pruesse, Pelin Yilmaz, Jan Gerken, Timmy Schweer, Pablo Yarza, Jörg Peplies, Frank Oliver Glöckner (2013)
The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
''Nucleic Acids Research'' 41 (D1): D590-D596. {{doi, 10.1093/nar/gks1219{{third-party inline, date=November 2016 {{cite journal, author1=Pelin Yilmaz, author2= Laura Wegener Parfrey, authorlink2=Laura Wegener Parfrey, author3= Pablo Yarza, author4= Jan Gerken, author5= Elmar Pruesse, author6= Christian Quast, author7= Timmy Schweer, author8= Jörg Peplies, author9= Wolfgang Ludwig, author10= Frank Oliver Glöckner , date=2014, title= The SILVA and "All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)" taxonomic frameworks, journal= Nucleic Acids Research, volume=42, issue=D1, pages= D643–D648, doi=10.1093/nar/gkt1209, pmid= 24293649, doi-access= free Elmar Pruesse, Christian Quast, Katrin Knittel, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Wolfgang Ludwig, Jörg Peplies, Frank Oliver Glöckner (2007)
SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB
''Nucleic Acids Research'' 35 (21): 7188-7196. {{doi, 10.1093/nar/gkm864{{third-party inline, date=November 2016 Silva
Ribocon GmbH. Accessed November 2016.{{self-published inline, date=November 2016 Biodiversity databases

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