Saccharomyces Genome Database

[2] The SGD provides internet access to the complete Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomic DNA sequence, its genes and their products, the phenotypes of its mutants, and the literature supporting these data.

In the peer-reviewed literature report, experimental results on function and interaction of yeast genes are extracted by high-quality manual curation and integrated within a well-developed database.

The data are combined with quality high-throughput results and posted on Locus Summary pages which is a powerful query engine and rich genome browser.

SGD presents information using a variety of user-friendly, dynamically created graphical displays illustrating physical, genetic, and sequence feature maps.

[3] Biocurator includes review of the published literature or sets of data, leading to the identification and abstraction of key results.

SGD is the source of the genomic sequence for the S. cerevisiae S288C strain background and includes a catalog of genes and chromosomal features.

SGD biocurators search all of the scientific literature that is relevant to S. cerevisiae, read the papers and capture their major findings in various defined fields of the database.

BLAST, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, is the program designed to find similar regions between biological sequences.