About SGD

The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) project collects information and maintains a database of the molecular biology of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This database includes a variety of genomic and biological information and is maintained and updated by SGD curators. The SGD also maintains the S. cerevisiae Gene Name Registry, a complete list of all gene names used in S. cerevisiae. This task was transferred to the SGD by Dr. Robert Mortimer in early 1994. We have also compiled a set of general guidelines to gene naming that may be of help to researchers who are naming new S. cerevisiae genes.

Upcoming Meetings

• 19th Annual Southeastern Regional Yeast Meeting

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

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

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

• Model Organisms to Human Biology: Cancer Genetics

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

• Yeast Genetics 2012

  July 31, 2012 - Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
  Abstract deadline: April 26, 2012

• 13th International Congress on Yeasts

  August 26, 2012 - Madison, WI, USA
  Abstract deadline: July 6, 2012

• 9th International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis

  September 16, 2012 - Rome, Italy
  Abstract deadline: June 30, 2012

• SGD: New look, new features!
  
  01/26/2012
  
  SGD has added more than just a new look, we've added some great new features! View the short video "We've added more than just a new look..." on Vimeo to learn about our enhanced Search Box and our new navigational menu bar. ...read more >
• New data tracks added to GBrowse
  
  01/26/2012
  
  SGD has added a mélange of data tracks to our GBrowse genome viewer from six publications covering various applications of high-throughput sequencing, including genome-wide distributions of DNase I-protected genomic footprints (Hesselberth et al. 2009), recombination-associated double strand breakpoints (Pan et al. 2011), polyadenylation sites (Ozsolak et al. 2010), antisense ncRNAs (Yassour et al. 2010), cryptic unstable transcripts (CUTs) (Neil et al. 2009) and Xrn1-sensitive unstable transcripts (XUTs) (van Dijk et al. 2011). You can now also easily download data tracks, metadata and supplementary data by clicking on the '?' icon on each data track within GBrowse. Please watch our video...read more >
• Updated Resource: YPL+
  
  01/25/2012
  
  Links to YPL+ (the Yeast Protein LocalizationPlus Database) have been added to the "Protein Information" section of SGD Locus Summary pages. YPL+ is a recently upgraded version of the YPL image database, and has been expanded to include GFP-localization data for more than 3500 genes. Data in YPL+ are derived from a collection of GFP fusion constructs generated by C-terminal chromosomal tagging (Huh et al., 2003, Nature 425, 686-691) as well as a collection of proteins involved in lipid-metabolism, constructed by in vivo recombination (Natter et al., 2005, Mol. Cell. Proteomics 4(5), 662-672). Thanks to Sepp Kohlwein for help in setting...read more >
• More Going on in the Ribosome Than Expected
  
  01/20/2012
  
  As scientists peer ever more deeply into a cell, the picture of how things work becomes more and more complicated.  This was true when scientists took a hard look at transcription and gene regulation and found lots of little RNAs scurrying around the cell, regulating genes.  And it now appears to be true for what is being translated and how translation is regulated. In a new study, Brar and coworkers used ribosome profiling to explore what happens in yeast cells during meiosis at the level of translation.  What they found was that a whole lot more was being translated (or at...read more >