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March 2010 Funding was awarded by the Wellcome Trust for a fission yeast Model Organism Database, Pombase.

March 2010 Fission yeast is one of the 12 key organisms of the reference genomes project. The goal of this project is to completely annotate twelve reference genomes so that those annotations may be used to effectively seed the automatic annotation efforts of other genomes.

November 2009 GeneDB (S. pombe) now uses the latest update to Pfam, release 24.0 and 88.5% of fission yeast proteins now contain a match to at least one Pfam domain (increased from 83% in version 23). See pombelist for more information.

October 2009 The fission yeast genome and annotation dataset is now available as part of Ensembl Fungi.

December 2008 S. pombe GeneDB now includes "deep links" to the Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) interaction datasets from the 'Database Cross References' section of the individual Gene Pages. For further information see the pombelist archive

September 2008 GeneDB is now using Version 23 of the Pfam protein family database. A total of 4154 (83%) S. pombe proteins now have at least one Pfam domain or family assignment (compared to 76% for S. cerevisiae), the highest percentage coverage for any eukaryote. Browse Search

May 2008 Global sequence and chip study examines eukaryotic transcription See the Press Release for an overview. Data Access in GeneDB: RNAs from this project can be retrieved from here. (Note, all non coding RNAs can be retrieved from here.) New genes found and genes removed as a result of this project are here ("Solexa prediction" in the description field). Coordinate changes resulting from this project are found here ("Solexa" in comment field). All other data is provided in supplemental data in the paper (PMID:18488015) or can be retreived from array express. The high-resolution view of transcripts in context can be accessed from each gene page under the link to TranscriptomeViewer in the Published Expression Profiles section of the page (example).

February 2008 The h- mating type region has been provided by Xavier Marsellach and Lorena Aguilar

January 2008 Baumann and Zakian labs identify elusive telomerase RNA (PMID: 18157152 and PMID: 18157149)

October 2007 Wellcome Trust Advanced Course 'Genome-wide approaches with fission yeast' held in Hinxton.

June 2007 4th International Fission Yeast Meeting held in Copenhagen.

January 2007 GeneDB representation of the fission yeast data moved from contigs to chromosomes. See the pombelist archive for details.

October 2006 Yeast Special Issue from the 2006 European Fission Yeast Meeting The October issue of the journal Yeast is a fission yeast special issue containing 13 articles and reviews commissioned as a result of the European Fission Yeast Meeting, which are FREE to download.

July 2006 The first fission yeast whole proteome localization study is now published Matsuyama A. et al (2006): ORFeome cloning and global analysis of protein localization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nat Biotech 24, 841-7.

May 2006 Fission yeast database survey The fission yeast database survey is now closed. You can view the survey results here.

March 2006 European Fission Yeast Meeting The European Fission Yeast Meeting (16th-18th March 2006) and The Fission Yeast Bioinformatics workshop (15th - 16th Mar 2006) both took place at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton (Cambridge, UK).

November 2005 Second East Coast Regional pombe Meeting This meeting took place from November 11-13, 2005 in Miami Beach, Florida. See the meeting website for details.

November 2005 Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms: Eukaryotic Genome Evolution, Approaches with Yeasts and Fungi This conference took place from 12th-17th November 2005 in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain. Full details can be found here.

September 2004 General Repository for Interaction Datasets A project to record published genetic and physical interactions is underway with Mike Tyers and the GRID group at Toronto. A sample page is here.

Aug 2004 The Third International Fission Yeast Meeting The meeting was held at UC San Diego on August 24-29, 2004. Details of the meeting are available here.

May 2004 Methods Volume 33 Issue 3 This issue of Methods includes 11 papers for fission yeast protocols including DNA damage checkpoint assays, cell wall analysis, TAP, nuclear envelope integrity assays, GFP imaging, TS mutant creation and plasmid use and construction. See Methods or click here for details of the papers including PMIDs.

Nov 2003 Recent Genome wide surveys Correlations Between Gene Expression and Gene Conservation in Fission Yeast. Mata J, Bahler J. Genome Res. 2003 Nov 12 PMID: 14613978 FELINES: a utility for extracting and examining EST-defined introns and exons. Drabenstot SD et al Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Nov 15;31(22):e141. PMID: 14602934 Genome-wide distribution of DNA replication origins at A+T-rich islands in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Segurado M, De Luis A, Antequera F. EMBO Rep. 2003 Nov;4(11):1048-53. Epub 2003 Oct 17. PMID: 14566325 Retrotransposons and their recognition of pol II promoters: a comprehensive survey... Bowen NJ et al Genome Res. 2003 Sep;13(9):1984-97. PMID: 12952871

Sep 2003 The 'new' fission yeast book is now published Egel, R., Copenhagen, Denmark (Ed.) The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Genetics, Genomics and Beyond ISBN:3-540-00693-1

March 2003 Schizosaccharomyces pombe Essential Genes: A pilot Study Decottignies A, Sanchez-Perez I, Nurse P Genome Res. 2003 Mar;13(3):399-406. PMID: 12618370

Jan 2003 Global transcriptional responses of fission yeast to environmental stress. Chen D, Toone WM, Mata J, Lyne R, Burns G, Kivinen K, Brazma A, Jones N, Bahler J. Mol Biol Cell. 2003 Jan;14(1):214-29. PMID: 12529438

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