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See You at Yeast 2013! 26 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
SGD staff will be attending the 26th International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology, which will be held at Frankfurt University, Germany, from Thursday August 29th – Tuesday Septembe...
Smoothing Over an Extra Chromosome 22 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
Let’s say you had a rock you had to move that was way too heavy for you to lift. You could either start lifting weights until you could move it yourself or get someone to help you. Most of us would st...
New data tracks added to GBrowse 21 Aug 2013 | 03:10 am
SGD has added new data tracks to the GBrowse genome viewer covering differential expression RNA-seq data from Waern & Snyder (2013) and Transcript Leader RNA-seq data from Arribere & Gilbert (2013). ...
Anchors Aweigh for Peroxisomes 16 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
Suppose you had a fleet of rowboats that you wanted to split up evenly between two shores. You probably wouldn’t just set them free and hope they drifted to the right places. A better way might be to...
When One Spark Isn’t Enough 7 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
A single mutation, just like a single spark, is more likely to fizzle out. As anyone who has ever tried to start a fire with flint knows, a single spark is rarely enough. You need to get a bunch of ...
The Baby Bear of Proteins 31 Jul 2013 | 08:49 pm
In the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Goldilocks always likes Baby Bear’s stuff best. Baby Bear has the most comfortable bed, the best porridge, and so on. When it comes to protein levels, ...
Size Isn’t All That Matters 23 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
Stressed people can lose a marble or two, stressed cells lose a chromosome instead. Sometimes the pressures and stresses of everyday life can make some people go a little crazy…they lose a few of the...
Regulation Information Integrated into SGD 18 Jul 2013 | 07:12 pm
The Locus Summary pages of 147 DNA-binding transcription factors (TFs; retrieve the list) now include a new tabbed page, Regulation. This page contains information on the regulatory targets of the TF,...
Oxidation: Maybe Not SO Bad After All 12 Jul 2013 | 12:54 am
You don’t have to be a scientist to get the message that oxidation is bad and antioxidants are good. Just go to the vitamin aisle of your local supermarket, or listen to the ads on late-night TV. You...
Links to LoQate 10 Jul 2013 | 07:31 am
SGD now provides links to LoQate (the localization and quantitation atlas of the yeast proteome) from the Protein Information section of the Locus Summary Pages. The LoQate database provides localizat...
