Help
SGD maintains help documentation for tools and data types. Help pages for individual tools can be accessed via the question mark symbol found in the upper right section of that page. Help pages are context dependent; the link will point to documentation for the page you are viewing.
Contacting SGD
Please send comments or questions to the SGD project via this form. Alternatively, email us at sgd-helpdesk@lists.stanford.edu or call us at (650) 725-8956.
Video Tutorials
Basic Navigation - learn how to navigate the SGD web site
Biochemical Pathways - search and view yeast biochemical pathways, including reactions, enzymes and compounds
Expression - use the SPELL expression tool to search GEO expression datasets with a list of genes
Function - view and download Gene Ontology (GO) annotations for your favorite gene
Functional Complementation - view and download functional complementation data for yeast-human gene pairs
Gene Name Reservations - learn how and why to reserve a yeast gene name at SGD
Genome Browser (GBrowse) - view and download sequence and genome-wide datasets
Genome Snapshot - view current annotation status of the S. cerevisiae S288C reference genome
Interactions - Interactions Overview | Interaction Network
Literature - information about curated literature for a particular gene
Phenotypes - detailed information about single mutant phenotypes for a particular gene
Reference Genome Sequence - learn how to find and download information about the S. cerevisiae strain S288C reference genome sequence
Yeastmine - use templates and gene lists to search and retrieve all types of SGD data
Help Documents
General features - getting started in SGD, finding information about your favorite genes, what's known about the S. cerevisiae genome, glossary of terms
Analyze - DNA or protein sequences, function annotation, primers, restriction maps
Sequence - find and retrieve, compare strains and species, chromosome history, reference genome
Function - interactions, phenotypes, localization, expression, regulation, pathways
Literature - search full text, find new papers, genome-wide analysis papers
Community - colleagues, job postings, meetings, reserve gene names, and more