The SILVA Tree Viewer implements search and browse tools that can be used to:
First of all, to get access to the search tools, the search panel has to be opened by clicking on the looking glass icon button
In the drop down list in the "Search for sequences" area of the search panel, choose "by full name"; input the search text "Nevskia" into the text field; click "Search" or press enter to perform the search.
The search results are marked with coloured dots on the tree area and the current result is highlighted. The current result is the reference used for results navigation by means of the "Results navigator" (upper right corner of the view). The tree view can now be panned and zoomed to explore the neighbourhood of the search results.
In the drop down list in the "Search for taxa" area of the search panel, choose "by taxonomic path"; input the search text "Chlorobia" into the text field; click "Search" or press enter to perform the search.
The search results are marked with coloured rectangles, corresponding to the taxa matching the search criteria and the current result is highlighted. The current result is the reference used for results navigation by means of the "Results navigator" (upper right corner of the view). The tree view can now be panned and zoomed to explore the contents and neighbourhood of the returned taxa. As shown in the example, only the most general taxa is returned, even though the ones contained in it also have the search keyword in their path.
In the Browse phyla area of the search panel, scroll the alphabetically sorted list of elements until "Tenericutes" becomes visible; click on "Tenericutes" to select it; click on "Show selected" to navigate the tree view to the corresponding group(s).
In this case the Phylum is composed of two groups, hence a multi-phylogeny, as indicated by the total number of results in the "Results browser" and the two highlighted rectangles.
