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
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...
for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, the Department of Microbiology at the
Technical University Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a Public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied science, applied and natural sciences.
Est ...
, and
Ribocon.
Release 117 of the database (January 2014) held more than 4,000,000
small subunit (SSU -
16S/
18S) and 400,000
large subunit (LSU -
23S/
28S) sequences. Sequences are provided as files for the ARB software environment.
See also
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References
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[Marc P. Hoeppner, Lars E. Barquist, Paul P. Gardner (2014)]
An Introduction to RNA Databases
''Methods in Molecular Biology'' 1097: 107–123. {{doi, 10.1007/978-1-62703-709-9_6.
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, pmc= 3965112, 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
External links
SILVA rRNA database project
Biodiversity databases