About SGD

The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) provides comprehensive integrated biological information for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae along with search and analysis tools to explore these data, enabling the discovery of functional relationships between sequence and gene products in fungi and higher organisms.

Upcoming Meetings

• 19th Annual Southeastern Regional Yeast Meeting

  February 24, 2012 - Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  Abstract deadline: February 1, 2012

• Biocuration 2012 - The Conference of the International Society for Biocuration

  April 2, 2012 - Washington, DC
  Abstract submission now closed

• 10th Francophone Yeasts Meeting, Levures, Modèle et Outils-10

  April 2, 2012 - University of Toulouse, France
  Abstract deadline: February 8, 2012

• General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology

  June 16, 2012 - San Francisco, CA
  Abstract deadline: January 17, 2012

• Model Organisms to Human Biology: Cancer Genetics

  June 17, 2012 - Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC
  Abstract deadline: March 29, 2012

• Finally Great Tasting, Low Alcohol Beer
  
  02/17/2012
  
  Let’s face it: low alcohol beer just doesn’t taste that great.  This is because the alcohol is either diluted or removed chemically after fermentation.  Both methods wreak havoc with a beer’s flavor. Dr. John Morrissey of University College Cork is trying to change this.  His lab is working to generate a strain of yeast that turns some but not all of its sugar into alcohol.  That way the beer process is the same, just with less...read more >
• Expression Data and LiftOver Files Available for Download
  
  02/14/2012
  
  RNA expression data that are included in SGD's SPELL expression analysis tool are now available for download in the expression directory. Datasets have been grouped by publication and are in PCL format. LiftOver files that allow conversion of chromosomal coordinates between different S. cerevisiae genome versions are also now available for download via the genome_releases link in the sequence directory. ...read more >
• Multicellularity a Snap? Maybe so…
  
  02/10/2012
  
  Some people might think that the transition from single-celled creatures to multi-cellular ones must have been tough.  After all, single celled organisms ruled the world for the first one or two billion years of life here on Earth.  And yet, all multi-celled beasts didn’t evolve from the same ancestor.  Current theories are that multicellularity evolved dozens of times over the ages.  In fact, all of the transitional stages of multicellular life can be seen in the...read more >
• A Simpler Way to Evolve
  
  02/06/2012
  
  As life evolves there is a tendency for increased complexity.  Up until now, scientists have mostly focused on gain of function mutations as the motor for this change.  This has proven fertile ground for evolution deniers who have claimed that life’s complexity could not have arisen from these rare, gain of function mutations alone. A new study by Finnigan and coworkers provides an important counterpunch to this argument.  These authors resurrected ancient proteins and showed that...read more >