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==Fungal Pathogen Genomics Workshop==
 
==Fungal Pathogen Genomics Workshop==
From May 10th - 14th, Senior Biocuration Scientist Edith Wong, Senior Biocuration Scientist Rob Nash, Senior Biocuration Scientist Marek Skrzypek, Biocuration Scientist Suzi Aleksander, and Associate Biocuration Scientist Micheal Alexander were instructors for the Virtual Fungal Pathogen Genomics Workshop hosted by Wellcome Connecting Science. Our curators helped attendees learn more about the unique tools hosted on our website and provided them the opportunity to learn about other curation tools from [https://veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app FungiDB], [https://fungi.ensembl.org/index.html EnsemblFungi], [http://www.candidagenome.org CGD], [https://mycocosm.jgi.doe.gov/mycocosm/home MycoCosm], and [https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/portal/ JGI].  
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From May 10th - 14th, Senior Biocuration Scientist Edith Wong, Senior Biocuration Scientist Rob Nash, Senior Biocuration Scientist Marek Skrzypek, Biocuration Scientist Suzi Aleksander, and Associate Biocuration Scientist Micheal Alexander were instructors for the [https://coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/fungal-pathogen-genomics-virtual-20210510/ Virtual Fungal Pathogen Genomics Workshop] hosted by [https://coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/fungal-pathogen-genomics-virtual-20210510/ Wellcome Connecting Science]. Our curators helped attendees learn more about the unique tools hosted on our website and provided them the opportunity to learn about other curation tools from [https://veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app FungiDB], [https://fungi.ensembl.org/index.html EnsemblFungi], [http://www.candidagenome.org CGD], [https://mycocosm.jgi.doe.gov/mycocosm/home MycoCosm], and [https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/portal/ JGI].  
  
 
We would like to thank the Fungal Pathogen Genomics team for facilitating a successful virtual workshop, and for providing excellent training in web-based data mining resources for all attendees.
 
We would like to thank the Fungal Pathogen Genomics team for facilitating a successful virtual workshop, and for providing excellent training in web-based data mining resources for all attendees.

Revision as of 13:36, 25 May 2021

About this newsletter:

This is the Spring 2021 issue of the SGD newsletter. The goal of this newsletter is to inform our users about new features in SGD and to foster communication within the yeast community. You can also subscribe to SGD's RSS feed to receive updates on SGD news: http://www.yeastgenome.org/feed

R64.3 Annotation Update

SGD curators periodically update the chromosomal annotations of the S. cerevisiae Reference Genome, which is derived from strain S288C.

The R64.3 annotation release included various updates and additions:

Various sequence and annotation files are available on SGD's Downloads site. You can find more update details and read about the new systematic nomenclature system for noncoding RNA genes on the Details of 2021 Reference Genome Annotation Update R64.3 SGD Wiki page.

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YeastMine Updates and New Templates

Transcript and UTR YeastMine Templates


SGD has updated the current Gene-->UTRs YeastMine template with newly calculated 5' and 3' UTR sequence/coordinates. Additionally, transcript iso-forms for specific genes from the Pelachano et al 2013 study can be accessed in YeastMine using the new Gene-->Transcript template. Both templates can be found under the "Templates" section of YeastMine under the "Expression" category.









Textpresso Central Update

Textpresso has recently been updated with a new system, adopting an overhauled user interface and introducing several new features including:

  • Search results shown in the context of the full text
  • Custom corpus creation
  • Customizable annotation interface
  • Search terms are highlighted in full-text view

Textpresso Central can also be accessed by clicking on "Full-text Search" under the Literature pull-down menu on the home page of SGD. More information about the changes and types of papers stored in Textpresso can be found in their About Us help section or (from Müller et al).


Textpresso Homepage










Fungal Pathogen Genomics Workshop

From May 10th - 14th, Senior Biocuration Scientist Edith Wong, Senior Biocuration Scientist Rob Nash, Senior Biocuration Scientist Marek Skrzypek, Biocuration Scientist Suzi Aleksander, and Associate Biocuration Scientist Micheal Alexander were instructors for the Virtual Fungal Pathogen Genomics Workshop hosted by Wellcome Connecting Science. Our curators helped attendees learn more about the unique tools hosted on our website and provided them the opportunity to learn about other curation tools from FungiDB, EnsemblFungi, CGD, MycoCosm, and JGI.

We would like to thank the Fungal Pathogen Genomics team for facilitating a successful virtual workshop, and for providing excellent training in web-based data mining resources for all attendees.

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New Homology Pages

SGD is excited to introduce our new Homology Pages! These pages can be accessed by clicking on the Homology tab in the header of SGD gene pages, as seen below.

The information displayed on the Homology Pages is divided into several sections:

  • Homologs: Information about known homologs for the gene of interest, such as the species of the homolog, the corresponding Gene ID from the Alliance of Genome Resources, and the name of the homolog.
  • Functional Complementation: Data about cross-species functional complementation between yeast and other species, curated by SGD and the Princeton Protein Orthology Database (P-POD).
  • Fungal Homologs: Curated homolog information for 24 additional species of fungi. View the species of the fungal homolog, the database source of the entry, and the Gene ID of the homolog from that database.
  • External Identifiers: A list of external identifiers for the protein from various database sources.
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Functional Complementation Data Available on References Pages

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Functional Complementation annotations are now viewable on reference pages for which there is curatable functional complementation data. This information describes cross-species functional complementation between yeast and other species, and is curated by SGD and the Princeton Protein Orthology Database (P-POD).














Number of Curated Alleles Continues to Grow

The cdc28-13 allele page.

SGD now has approximately 13,000 alleles that are either fully or partially curated. You can generate a list of all alleles in our database using the Genes --> Alleles template in YeastMine, or search for a specific allele in the website search bar.