Bioinformatics Research

  Our research focuses on the development and application of computational methods to improve understanding of biological systems.  Our interests include protein sequence analysis and structure prediction as well as NGS DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry. 

Read about new opportunities to collaborate with us via the Data Analysis Group (DAG)

You can read an introduction and  summary of some recent work on the College of Life Sciences website, while here you can  browse our publications, software and databases.

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News!

May 2010:
Welcome to Alexander (Sasha) Sherstnev. Sasha has joined  the group  on a joint BBSRC grant with Gordon Simpson.

May 2010:
New release (2.5) of STAMP mulitiple structure alignment and database scanning program.  See here for download.

May 2010:
Updates to Group Information and publications in  2010.

Mar 2010:
Jim Procter co-organised the EMBO VizBi workshop on biological data visualisation at the new Advanced Training Centre EMBL Heidelberg

Mar 2010:
Jim and Geoff  co-authored a review on alignment visualisation and Jim co-authored the commentary in the special issue of  Nature Methods about visualising biological data.

Jan 2010: Congratulations to
Christelle Robert
on the successful
defense of her Thesis
15/1/10.

Jan 2010: Jalview paper rated "Hot" by Thompson Essential Science Indicators.  Read Geoff's  interview here.

Dec 2009:
 Post-doc position in bioinformatics available.  Funded by BBSRC for three years.  See here for the job advert and here for further particulars.  A press release about the grant is here.  Closing date 15th Jan 2010.

Oct 2009:
 Two miRNA analysis papers published!  See: here for links.

Oct 2009:
 Farewell to Cathy Stephenson.  We thank Cathy for  her efforts over the last four years and wish her all the best in the future.

Oct 2009:
 Farewell to Ian Overton.  We wish Ian good luck in starting his own research group at Edinburgh.

Aug 2009:
Press Release about BBSRC Grant joint with Gordon Simpson to apply  massively parallel sequencing to study alternative polyadenylation.

July 2009:
 Welcome to Peter Troshin - new Postdoc in the group!

May 2009:
Read the new Data Analysis Group (DAG) web pages to find out how we can now collaborate on more wet/dry research projects.

January 2009:
Paper describing the latest advances in the Jalview multiple alignment editor and analysis workbench published in Bioinformatics.