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This is the home of the Candida Genome Database, a resource for genomic sequence data and gene and protein information for Candida albicans. CGD is based on the Saccharomyces Genome Database and is funded by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research at the US National Institutes of Health.
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circleBatch search for S. cerevisiae orthologs and best hits now available
S. cerevisiae orthologs and best hits can now be searched for multiple C. albicans genes using the Batch Download Tool. The results of the batch ortholog and best hit search will be provided as a tab-delimited file containing the corresponding S. cerevisiae gene name and SGDID, along with an indication of whether the S. cerevisiae gene is an ortholog or best hit. Please refer to the help document here for further details. (Posted May 8, 2008)
circleCGD Curation News
circleLinks to C. dubliniensis orthologs now available
Orthologs between C. albicans and C. dubliniensis are now available on the "Ortholog(s)" section at CGD Locus pages and hyperlinked to appropriate GeneDB pages (Examples: ECM331, MKC1). The data are also available for download from our web site. The ortholog mappings between C. albicans and C. dubliniensis were provided to CGD by John Gamble and Matthew Berriman at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The C. dubliniensis orthologs are manually curated positional orthologs based on synteny. (Posted May 1, 2008)
circleUpdated comparisons to S. cerevisiae
We have updated CGD's comparisons between C. albicans and S. cerevisiae protein-coding genes in two different areas.

Ortholog and Best Hit mappings of C. albicans genes to S. cerevisiae genes were updated based on Assembly 21 of the C. albicans genome. These Orthologs and Best Hits appear as hyperlinks between CGD Locus Pages and the corresponding Locus Pages at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD). S. cerevisiae Best Hits and orthologs are searchable using the Quick Search or the S. cerevisiae Orthologs and Best Hits Search tool on the CGD Full Search page, and a file containing all of the ortholog and Best Hit mappings may be downloaded from the S. cerevisiae orthologs and Best Hits directory on the CGD Downloads site.

New Gene Ontology (GO) annotations have been added to CGD based on the annotations of S. cerevisiae orthologs at SGD. Annotations in SGD based on direct experimentation (evidence codes IDA, IPI, IGI, and IMP) were assigned to the orthologous C. albicans gene products. The CGD annotations predicted by this method have the IEA (Inferred from Electronic Annotation) evidence code and are indicated as computationally assigned. Annotations that were redundant with existing CGD manually curated GO terms or with other newly predicted annotations were removed from the set. In total, 11191 new annotations were added to 3113 genes. The procedure used for the transfer of GO annotations is described in further detail here. (Posted April 23, 2008)
circleNew Files Available for Download
CGD metabolic pathway information is now available in a tab-delimited file containing pathway names and lists of the genes that encode enzymes that participate in each pathway. We have also posted a file that contains the entire set of CGD pathway information in the format that is read by the Pathway Tools software from SRI. Both files are available for download from our web site.

We have also generated a file of annotations of Candida albicans genes to CGD GO Slim terms. A GO Slim is a small subset of terms from the Gene Ontology that is intended to provide a general overview without all the fine-grained detail contained in the GO itself. The CGD Downloads site has a new browsable go/ subdirectory containing files related to the Gene Ontology, including the GO annotation (gene_association) file containing the annotation of Candida albicans genes to terms from the complete Gene Ontology (the most precise and comprehensive GO annotation file at CGD), the less fine-grained CGD GO Slim annotations file containing annotation of Candida albicans genes to GO Slim terms, and the set of CGD GO Slim terms themselves. (Posted April 11, 2008)
circleNew Links from CGD Locus Pages
CGD Locus pages are now hyperlinked to additional resources for Candida gene information. These hyperlinks have been added to the External Links section, which appears below the sequence information on each Locus page. The new links entitled "Broad" connect to the Candida comparative annotation site at the Broad Institute. New "UniProt/Swiss-Prot" links connect to the corresponding UniProtKB records. In addition, the "CandidaDB" links in CGD have now been now updated to connect to the multi-genome version of CandidaDB at the Institut Pasteur. CGD thanks Christina Cuomo, Dan Barrell, Kati Laiho, Christophe d'Enfert, and Tristan Rossignol for their help in establishing these links. (Posted April 4, 2008)
circleCandida Biochemical Pathways are now available at CGD
Graphical, interactive displays of Candida biochemical pathways are now available at CGD. To access the pathway displays, you may browse from a list of hyperlinked CGD pathways, search from the main Pathway Search page, or click on the links that appear on Locus Summary pages of genes involved in a pathway. The pathways were created using the Pathway Tools software, which is developed and maintained by the Bioinformatics Research Group at SRI International. The pathway predictions are being manually reviewed and curated at CGD, as described in more detail on our Pathways Help page. Pathway curation is an ongoing process, and we welcome your suggestions for new pathways, or any corrections to metabolic pathway information in CGD. (Posted March 13, 2008)
circleNew Features at CGD
We are very pleased to announce significant enhancements to our web site, which have been implemented in collaboration with the Saccharomyces Genome Database. Some highlights: We welcome your feedback! (Posted December 4, 2007)
circlePrevious news items are available from the CGD News Archive

Note: The Candida Genome Database provides information about the molecular biology of the yeast Candida albicans to researchers. CGD staff are not physicians and cannot give medical advice. Information about pathogenic yeast infections such as candidiasis can be found online in the PubMed database or at the Candidiasis information page at Medline Plus.

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The Candida Genome Database (CGDTM) project is funded by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research at the US National Institutes of Health.   The CGDTM is in the Department of Genetics at the School of Medicine, Stanford University. The trademark on CGDTM is held by The Board of Trustees, Leland Stanford Junior University.


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