PomBase 2015: updates to the fission yeast database.

Paul J. Kersey,Daniel M. Staines,Valerie Wood,Mark D. McDowall,Stephen G. Oliver,Antonia Lock,Kim Rutherford,Midori A. Harris,Jürg Bähler

doi:10.1093/nar/gku1040

Abstract

PomBase (http://www.pombase.org) is the model organism database for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. PomBase provides a central hub for the fission yeast community, supporting both exploratory and hypothesis-driven research. It provides users easy access to data ranging from the sequence level, to molecular and phenotypic annotations, through to the display of genome-wide high-throughput studies. Recent improvements to the site extend annotation specificity, improve usability and allow for monthly data updates. Both in-house curators and community researchers provide manually curated data to PomBase. The genome browser provides access to published high-throughput data sets and the genomes of three additional Schizosaccharomyces species (Schizosaccharomyces cryophilus, Schizosaccharomyces japonicus and Schizosaccharomyces octosporus).

Highlights

The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is a unicellular eukaryote that has been used as a model organism for studying a diverse array of biological processes, from the cell cycle to signaling, for over 60 years [1]
The PomBase portal provides centralized access to geneand genome-scale information, emphasizing data acquired by manual literature curation
On PomBase gene pages, annotation extensions are shown in rows below the ontology term, with the relevant evidence code and annotation source

Summary

Introduction

The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is a unicellular eukaryote that has been used as a model organism for studying a diverse array of biological processes, from the cell cycle to signaling, for over 60 years [1]. The PomBase portal provides centralized access to geneand genome-scale information, emphasizing data acquired by manual literature curation. PomBase offers a customized Ensembl Genome browser [5] to provide access to the genome sequence and features, and to visualize high-throughput data sets in a genomic context.

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