Saccharomyces cerevisiae assembly and gene annotation

Assembly

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a unicellular fungus. It is commonly known as baker's, brewer's or budding yeast. It is used in the production of a number of human foodstuffs, including alcoholic beverages and in the baking industry, and is widely used as a model species in the study of eukaryotic biology. In 1996, the genome of S. cerevisiae was the first eukaryotic genome to be completely deciphered.

The data on this site is a direct import of the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) dataset for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C genome. The assembly provided is R64-1-1, supplemented with additional cross-references and annotations. The protein-coding and non-coding gene model annotation was imported from SGD in April 2018. This gene set is based on Liachko et al. 2013 , and contains 7036 protein-coding genes. Additionally, 91 transposable element genes (TE genes) that were previously annotated as protein-coding genes have now been correctly captured as TE genes. We have also included the variation data from the Saccharomyces Genome Resequencing Project (SGRP) and functional genomics data from Yeast Genome 2.0 Array and Yeast Genome S98 Array.

References

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• Ab initio construction of a eukaryotic transcriptome by massively parallel mRNA sequencing.

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• Life with 6000 genes.

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• High-resolution mapping of complex traits with a four-parent advanced intercross yeast population.

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• The Reference Genome Sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Then and Now

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• High-resolution mapping, characterization, and optimization of autonomously replicating sequences in yeast.

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Other assemblies

• SGD1.01 (Ensembl release 54)

Gene annotation

This species and other fungi are also available from our sister site, Ensembl Fungi

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.