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 genome.

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.

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

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.

Global sequence and chip study examines eukaryotic transcription
Dynamic repertoire of the fission yeast transcriptome reveals: 94% of the genome is transcribed; extensive variation in different stages and conditions; global and condition-specific coupling between splicing efficiency and transcription; confirms the majority of introns; refines ~75 gene structures; identifies 453 new transcripts 26 of which were predicted to code for proteins. More...