Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Organism Details

Common Name	yeast
Genus	Saccharomyces
Species	cerevisiae
Abbreviation	S.cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast. It is perhaps the most useful yeast, having been instrumental to baking and brewing since ancient times. It is believed that it was originally isolated FROM chado.the skins of grapes (one can see the yeast as a component of the thin white film on the skins of some dark-colored fruits such as plums; it exists among the waxes of the cuticle). It is one of the most intensively studied eukaryotic model organisms in molecular and cell biology, much like Escherichia coli as the model bacterium. It is the microorganism behind the most common type of fermentation. S. cerevisiae cells are round to ovoid, 5–10 micrometres in diameter. It reproduces by a division process known as budding.

Data Type Summary

The following data types are currently present for this organism

Feature Type	Count
exon	7,010
polypeptide	6,642
mRNA	6,603
gene	6,603
noncoding_exon	480
long_terminal_repeat	383
intron	376
ARS	337
tRNA	299
CDS	133
nucleotide_match	102
region	91
transposable_element_gene	90
snoRNA	77
LTR_retrotransposon	50
plus_1_translational_frameshift	46
X_element	32
telomere	32
telomeric_repeat	31
binding_site	31
X_element_combinatorial_repeat	28
rRNA	24
pseudogene	20
Y_prime_element	19
repeat_region	19
chromosome	17
centromere_DNA_Element_II	16
centromere_DNA_Element_III	16
centromere	16
centromere_DNA_Element_I	16
ncRNA	15
internal_transcribed_spacer_region	8
external_transcribed_spacer_region	8
snRNA	6
gene_cassette	3
non_transcribed_region	3
insertion	2

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