The following are some suggestions that may help you find what you're looking for if you're having trouble searching:

• Don't use ambiguous names. When possible, search for unique identifiers or systematic names. Many identifiers across the different species are duplicated, and as a result, may not uniquely identify a specific record. The more unique the identifier, the better your chance of getting a direct hit on searches.
• Try being less specific. For example, if you searched for STE11, try searching for STE and see if more results are returned.
• If you are searching with “ALL ORGANISMS” selected, try being more specific and choosing your organism of interest like Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Homo sapiens. Our search engine always attempt to make a direct match first, before using wild cards so, if you search for KSS for example, you may get KSS in Human when you were really after KSS1 in Yeast. Setting the organism to Saccharomyces cerevisae, however, will result in the yeast hit only.
• Make sure you are using the correct spelling. Sounds simple, but sometimes even the publication's use the incorrect spellings.
• Make sure and use the most common identifier when possible. Many genes have multiple synonyms but using the most common one is your best bet to find a hit.