January 26, 2012
SGD has added more than just a new look, we’ve added some great new features!
View the short video “We’ve added more than just a new look…” on Vimeo to learn about our enhanced Search Box and our new navigational menu bar.
Categories: Tutorial, Website changes
January 25, 2012
Links to YPL+ (the Yeast Protein LocalizationPlus Database) have been added to the “Protein Information” section of SGD Locus Summary pages. YPL+ is a recently upgraded version of the YPL image database, and has been expanded to include GFP-localization data for more than 3500 genes. Data in YPL+ are derived from a collection of GFP fusion constructs generated by C-terminal chromosomal tagging (Huh et al., 2003, Nature 425, 686-691) as well as a collection of proteins involved in lipid-metabolism, constructed by in vivo recombination (Natter et al., 2005, Mol. Cell. Proteomics 4(5), 662-672). Thanks to Sepp Kohlwein for help in setting up these links.
Categories: New Data, Website changes
January 14, 2012
Thank you to those who have shared your thoughts and comments about the new site. I am very proud of our new look and all the features it incorporates. For the past year we worked with web design professionals and conducted studies to determine an optimal design for the SGD pages. Since the inception of SGD, the standards for computer-human interfaces and website usability have advanced and we realize that we must embrace these changes in order to reach out to all communities that depend on SGD. The new pages address many previously identified issues and the new design allows the 21,000 weekly users of SGD to more effectively find the information they require. In addition to providing a modern look, the new design greatly decreases the learning curve for new users.
I am delighted that our Search has been enhanced to provide auto-suggest and auto-complete features. The new Search interface gives access to more types of information and facilitates the discovery of huge amounts of information integrated at SGD. Easier access to all the data is also facilitated by recent tool enhancements and data additions. Over the past year several hundred new datasets have been added to the Genomic Browser and we will continue to add new data at about the same rate. This year will also see the addition of new types of data, in particular strain genomic sequence.
I appreciate that change can be difficult. I hope that adjusting to the new site will not be too onerous and, in addition to the data which you are accustomed to getting from the site, you will discover new datatypes useful to you that you may not have realized were contained within SGD. I thank you again for providing me feedback on the new and more powerful SGD and ask that you please continue to send questions and comments to the SGD HelpDesk.
Wishing you all the best in 2012,
Mike
J. Michael Cherry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Research)
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5120
Categories: Website changes
January 11, 2012
Welcome to SGD’s new look! All of the information and functionality you are familiar with at SGD is still available, but has been repackaged in order to provide better access to data and to provide additional tools and services. One exciting new feature is the SGD blog where we will highlight and discuss research articles and topics. To fully access the updated SGD site, you may need to clear the cache on your browser. We encourage you to explore the new site and send us feedback.
Categories: Website changes
December 16, 2011
Expression analysis at SGD now offers the ability to filter datasets by condition(s) or process(es) studied. A set of controlled vocabulary (CV) terms describing various perturbations associated with microarray experiments has been constructed and defined, and these terms have been used to tag the comprehensive collection of almost 400 datasets now available in SGD’s instance of SPELL (Serial Pattern of Expression Levels Locator). In this manner, datasets displayed in search results can be filtered using tags (CV terms) such as “oxidative stress” or “sporulation.” Filtering is an option for the “New Search,” “Show Expression Levels,” and “Dataset Listing” features. The SPELL interface has been provided through a collaboration with the SGD Colony at Princeton University. Special thanks to Peter Koppstein, Lance Parsons, and Kara Dolinski for help in implementing the dataset tag filtering option for SPELL at SGD.
Categories: Data updates, Website changes
September 15, 2011
SGD has upgraded Yeast Biochemical Pathways (YeastCyc) to Pathway Tools Version 15.0. This version gives the pathway database a new look and offers new features for querying and analyzing data. A pathway-specific toolbar, available on each pathway web page, provides easy navigation and new features, including options to highlight pathways and substrates on the cellular overview and to download a list of genes from a specific pathway. Pathway files (yeastcyc15_201109.tar.gz and biochemical_pathways.tab) can be downloaded from SGD’s downloads page.
Categories: Website changes
September 06, 2011
SGD has updated both its BLAST Search and Pattern Matching (PatMatch) tools to include genomic, coding, and protein sequences from 26 additional S. cerevisiae strains. Look for more updates and tools from SGD for analyses of the S. cerevisiae strain genomes in the coming months.
Categories: Sequence, Website changes
September 01, 2011
SGD has updated its file Downloads Site. The new look includes complete genomic and protein sequence files for the current S288C reference sequence (Release 64) and all previous releases. Genomic sequence and annotation for numerous S. cerevisiae strains are also available for download. As always we make available many other published datasets and a large collection of information curated by SGD from the literature.
Categories: Website changes
August 22, 2011
SGD’s “Advanced Search” and “Batch Download” tools will be retired on August 31st. All of the functions of these tools, plus many more, can be accomplished by YeastMine, which offers flexible queries and fast retrieval of multiple datatypes from SGD for a custom list of genes or proteins.
Short video tutorials that walk you through some of the basic actions in YeastMine are also available.
Categories: Website changes
February 23, 2011
Expression analysis at SGD has a new powerful interface and many new datasets. The new interface uses a tool called SPELL (Serial Pattern of Expression Levels Locator). This analysis tool facilitates the rapid identification of the most informative datasets and co-expressed genes based on patterns of expression shared with the query gene(s). By transitioning to this tool, expression data from a comprehensive collection of almost 400 datasets are now available at SGD. The expression analysis tool can be accessed via the expression tab, the expression summary histogram, and in the functional analysis pulldown located on Locus Summary pages. These new data and the SPELL interface have been provided through a collaboration with the SGD Colony at Princeton University. Thanks to Peter Koppstein, Lance Parsons, and Kara Dolinski for help with data preparation and implementation of SPELL at SGD. SPELL was developed by the Troyanskaya lab at Princeton University (Hibbs et al. (2007) Bioinformatics 23:2692).
Categories: Data updates, Website changes