- 3rd Edition home
- Resources for Teachers
- The book's webpage at Wiley
- Part I : Bioinformatics : Analyzing DNA, RNA, and Protein Sequences
- Part II: Functional Genomics: Bioinformatics from DNA to RNA to Protein
- Chapter 8: The Eukaryotic Chromosome
- Chapter 9: DNA Analysis: Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing
- Chapter 10: Bioinformatic Approaches to RNA
- Chapter 11: RNA Analysis: Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing
- Chapter 12: Proteomics
- Chapter 13: Protein Structure
- Chapter 14: Functional Genomics
- Part III: Genomics
- Second edition
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics 3rd Edition
Chapter 18: The Fungi
The fungi include include the best-characterized eukaryotic organism, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this chapter we analyze its genome, comprised of 16 chromosomes, and use bioinformatics tools such as the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD; http://www.yeastgenome.org). We explore the phenomenon of whole-genome duplication that occurred in S. cerevisiase and other fungi, and discuss mechanisms of genome evolution. Finally, we survey the genomes of other fungi from Candida albicans and Neurospora crassa to the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Some of the websites we'll encounter are SGD, MIPS, NCBI fungal resources, and the yeast gene order browser (YGOB).