New and Noteworthy

The 12th ASM Conference on Candida and candidiasis will be held in the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, on March 26-30, 2014. The program includes sessions on Candida pathobiology, host-fungus interactions, infection and antifungal therapy. All sessions will be chaired by pre-eminent scientists in the field. As usual, most talks will be selected from the submitted abstracts. The organisers also encourage the submission of abstracts from medical mycologists for a new session on Candida Case Reports. This promises to be an exciting meeting in a great location!

More information to follow shortly. (Posted May 24, 2013)

• C. albicans Genome Snapshot.
• C. glabrata Genome Snapshot.
• C. parapsilosis Genome Snapshot.
• C. dubliniensis Genome Snapshot.
• New papers added to CGD this week.
• View Genome-wide Analysis papers in CGD.

We are pleased to announce that CGD is now hosting the C. dubliniensis CD36 genome sequence and reference annotation. These data were formerly collected and maintained by the Sanger Institute's GeneDB resource. Special thanks to Derek Sullivan, Gary Moran, Martin Aslett, and Matthew Berriman for making it possible for CGD to provide these data to the research community when the GeneDB resource for C. dubliniensis went offline.

We provide Locus Summary pages for each C. dubliniensis gene, for example, Cd36_01180, BLAST, the GBrowse Genome Browser, Sequence Tools, and the full suite of downloadable files, including sequence, GFF, and protein domain files.

New features for C. dubliniensis, coming soon at CGD:

• Addition of orthologs, and links among between Locus Summary pages for these orthologs within CGD
• Ortholog and protein-domain-based Gene Ontology (GO) term predictions
• Ortholog and protein-domain-based gene descriptions, for display on the Locus Summary pages
• tRNA-Scan analysis
• Curation of the experimental literature about C. dubliniensis, which will be an ongoing project at CGD going forward

We look forward to your feedback on these new data and features. (Posted April 30, 2013)

CGD has added protein domain predictions for eight additional Candida strains:

• C. albicans WO-1
• C. dubliniensis CD36
• C. guilliermondii ATCC 6260
• C. lusitaniae ATCC 42720
• C. orthopsilosis Co 90-125
• C. tropicalis MYA-3404
• D. hansenii CBS767
• L. elongisporus NRLL YB-4239

Domain predictions were made using InterProScan software from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). They are available on our Domain Download pages. Domain predictions for the three Candida strains actively curated by CGD are also available.

We now provide stable links to the current downloads of CGD sequence files, GFF files and chromosomal features files. These links have the same names as the primary download files, except that the frequently-changing genome version identifier in the name is replaced with the constant term "current". Thus, when the names of the primary files change because of an update in the genome version, the names of the links will stay the same, facilitating automated access to the data.

We have also made general updates to the informative text on the download pages. We hope you will find these additions and improvements useful. (Posted January 24, 2013)

We are pleased to announce that the main CGD servers are back online, now housed in a new data facility that provides a faster network and more stable environment than the previous location. The CGD Pathways and Full-Text Literature Search tools will be back in service soon. All other tools and resources are fully functional. We thank you for your patience and support during the outage. (Posted December 4, 2012)

The National Reserarch Council of Canada starts distributing a Candida albicans GRACE (gene replacement and conditional expression) library. See Candida Community News for details. (Posted November 6, 2012)

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