The new modern era of yeast genomics: community sequencing and the resulting annotation of multiple Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains at the Saccharomyces Genome Database

• Published in: Database : the journal of biological databases and curation Vol. 2013; p. bat012
• Main Authors: Engel, Stacia R, Cherry, J Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 2013
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Base Sequence; Databases, Genetic; Genome, Fungal; Genomics; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Molecular Sequence Data; Open Reading Frames - genetics; Original; Phylogeny; Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - chemistry; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods
• ISSN: 1758-0463; 1758-0463
• DOI: 10.1093/database/bat012

The first completed eukaryotic genome sequence was that of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD; http://www.yeastgenome.org/) is the original model organism database. SGD remains the authoritative community resource for the S. cerevisiae reference genome sequence and its annotation, and continues to provide comprehensive biological information correlated with S. cerevisiae genes and their products. A diverse set of yeast strains have been sequenced to explore commercial and laboratory applications, and a brief history of those strains is provided. The publication of these new genomes has motivated the creation of new tools, and SGD will annotate and provide comparative analyses of these sequences, correlating changes with variations in strain phenotypes and protein function. We are entering a new era at SGD, as we incorporate these new sequences and make them accessible to the scientific community, all in an effort to continue in our mission of educating researchers and facilitating discovery.