Draft Genome Sequence of the Ale-Fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain GSY2239

Jana M U'Ren; Jennifer H Wisecaver; Andrew L Paek; Barbara L Dunn; Bonnie L Hurwitz

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00776-15

Draft Genome Sequence of the Ale-Fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain GSY2239

Genome Announc. 2015 Jul 23;3(4):e00776-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00776-15.

Authors

Jana M U'Ren¹, Jennifer H Wisecaver², Andrew L Paek³, Barbara L Dunn⁴, Bonnie L Hurwitz²

Affiliations

¹ School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA juren@email.arizona.edu.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
³ Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
⁴ Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.

Abstract

Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain GSY2239 is derived from an industrial yeast strain used to ferment ale-style beer. We present here the 11.5-Mb draft genome sequence for this organism.