New & Noteworthy
Network Maintenance at SGD on July 6, 2017
June 15, 2017
The SGD website (www.yeastgenome.org) and several of its resources will be unavailable on Thursday, July 6, 2017 from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm PDT (10:00 am to 8:00 pm EDT; 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm UTC) for electrical equipment maintenance.
During this brief maintenance period, the main SGD website (www.yeastgenome.org) will be unavailable for use. Other resources affected by the maintenance are listed as follows:
| Unavailable | Available |
| Downloads page | Genome Browser |
| SPELL | YeastMine |
| Textpresso | YeastPathways |
| SGD Wiki | YeastGFP |
We will make every effort to minimize any downtime associated with this maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Categories: Maintenance
Recent network issues resolved
September 15, 2015
The SGD website was experiencing some network issues over the past few days. You may have noticed that some pages were sluggish to load, while others were completely unavailable. We apologize for this inconvenience, and appreciate your patience while we performed several rounds of network optimization. All seems to be fine now, but please let us know if you notice anything unusual. We are very happy to be back!
Categories: Maintenance
Network Maintenance at SGD on July 15, 2015
July 07, 2015
The SGD website (www.yeastgenome.org) and all its resources (Download Server, GBrowse, SPELL, YeastMine, Pathway Tools, and Textpresso) will be unavailable on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 from 2:30-4:30 pm PDT (5:30-7:30pm EDT, 9:30-11:30pm GMT, 6:30-8:30am Japan) for network maintenance. We will make every effort to minimize any downtime associated with this maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Categories: Maintenance
Possible Temporary Interruptions to SGD Service Sunday May 25
May 20, 2014
We are scheduling a maintenance window for SGD servers next Sunday, May 25 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm PDT (11:00 am to 8:00 PM EDT; 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm GMT). During this window, some services may be temporarily unavailable for a short time. We will make every effort to minimize any downtime associated with this maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
Categories: Maintenance
SGD Download Files Temporarily Unavailable Monday March 25
March 20, 2013
The files at SGD’s Downloads site will be unavailable between 5-7 PM PDT (8-10 PM EDT) on Monday, March 25 (12-2 AM GST or 9-11 AM JST on Tuesday March 26) in order to maintain the server that hosts the site. Please plan ahead to download the files you need. YeastMine will be available during this time for custom downloads. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we perform essential maintenance on SGD.
Categories: Maintenance
SGD Servers Moving to new Data Center
November 21, 2012
Many SGD tools and resources will be unavailable from Tuesday afternoon, November 27th, until Thursday, November 29th because we will be moving all of our servers to a new data center. This new data center will provide a more secure facility, a faster network, and a diesel generator to provide electricity in the event of a power failure.
You will be able to search the main SGD database during this time. However, many tools and pages, including the following, will be unavailable: Pathway Tools, YeastMine, Downloads/FTP, SPELL, GBrowse, Textpresso, and the SGD Wiki.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Please contact us at sgd-helpdesk@lists.stanford.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
Categories: Maintenance
SGD Downloads Site Temporarily Unavailable
October 29, 2012
The server that hosts SGD’s download files was affected by a power outage over the weekend and is currently unavailable. We are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.
Categories: Maintenance