Welcome to the website for the Sc2.0 synthetic yeast genome project.
Here you will find detailed information about our ongoing project to synthesize the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome – from oligos to chromosomes – and the design features of the new version of Saccharomyces cerevisiae which we fondly refer to as Sc2.0.
This website also describes the Build-A-Genome course, an innovative educational program to engage undergraduate students and others directly in the Sc2.0 project by producing Building Blocks that will be directly used in the project.
These pages also serve as a forum for engaging the yeast and synthetic biology communities in a new initiative to synthesize a modified version of the genome, chromosome by chromosome, from the “bottom up”. We welcome input on the best design features for Sc2.0 – or future synthetic genomes. An important aspect of this will be to leverage the formidable collective knowledgebase of the yeast and synthetic biology communities.
Data and Finished Chromosomes
Learn more about the design and experimental characterization of each finished chromosomes. The GFF3 version includes the annotation and the FASTA sequence record. The WT version is for the S288c reference strain and the synthetic version is the final design target.