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The [PR² database](https://pr2-database.org/) was initiated in 2010 in the frame of the BioMarks project from work that had developed in the previous ten years in the Plankton Group of the Station Biologique of Roscoff. Its aim is to provide a reference database of carefully annotated 18S rRNA sequences using eight unique taxonomic fields (from kingdom to species). At present it contains about 184,000 sequences. A number of metadata fields are available for many sequences, including geo-localisation, whether it originates from a culture or a natural sample, host type etc... The annotation of PR2 is performed by experts from each taxonomic groups. One very important project in this respect is [EukRef](https://pr2-database.org/eukref/about/) which has recently decided to merge its effort with PR². EukRef has built bioinformatics pipelines that have been used during three workshops dedicated to specific taxonomic groups.

- Current version : 4.13.0

- Last update : 17 March 2021

- [PR² statistics](https://pr2database.github.io/pr2database/articles/pr2_stats.html)