how to download silva for qiime2

[colinbrislawn (Colin J Brislawn)]

You can download ready-to-use databases from the Date Resources page.

If you would rather format the silva database yourself, check out the tutorial for RESCRIPt:

Processing, filtering, and evaluating the SILVA database (and other reference sequence data) with RESCRIPt

Please consider this tutorial a living document, which may change based upon community feedback and ongoing plugin development. RESCRIPt RESCRIPt (REference Sequence annotation and CuRatIon Pipeline) is a python package and QIIME 2 plugin for formatting, managing, and manipulating sequence reference databases. This package was designed for compiling, manipulating, and evaluating sequence reference databases from SILVA, NCBI, Greengenes, GTDB, and other sources, and for construc…