General S. cerevisiae Information
This page has replaced the Virtual Library. See also other fungi information.
- Generally speaking:
- What are yeast?
- Here are some pictures of yeast
- The Art of Brewing, courtesy of Miller Brewing Company.
- Information about winemaking.
- Information about yeast and bread baking, from Fleischmann's and Red Star Yeast companies.
- An introduction to yeast, the most ideal eukaryotic microorganism for biological studies, written by Fred Sherman.
- An updated version of the yeast primer Getting Started with Yeast written by Fred Sherman.
- Yeast Molecular Biology: A Short Compendium on Basic Features and Novel Aspects written by Horst Feldmann at the University of Munich
- Download a guide to S.cerevisiae nomenclature, published in Trends in Genetics.
- A table describing the gene targets of the different RNA polymerases in S. cerevisiae.
- A tutorial from the University of Saskatchewan provides an introduction to SGD and to S. cerevisiae molecular biology and genetics.
- A list of websites with relevance to S. cerevisiae molecular biology and genetics and to general molecular biology.
- Search the Yeast BioSci (a.k.a. BioNet) Electronic Conference
- Usenet group on yeast molecular biology: bionet.molbio.yeast
- Curated publications at SGD describing industrial uses of yeast, such as biofuels, winemaking, brewing.
- Curated publications at SGD addressing infections and antifungals and genes associated with diseases