Mar 2010: Jim Procter co-organised the EMBOVizBi 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.
November 2008: PIPs protein-protein interaction prediction for Human published
in NAR. See here for details and here to try it.
October 2008: Kinomer - protein kinase database published in NAR. See here for details and here to try it.
June 2008: SCANPS iterative protein sequence database search site
published in NAR. See here for details and here to try it.
April 2008: JPRED3 secondary structure prediction server paper now in press. See here for details and here to try it.
May 2008: Congratulations to Jon Manning on the succesful defense of his Ph.D. thesis.
March/April 2008: TarO Protein sequence Analysis Pipeline for Structural Genomics
Target Selection and General Protein Analysis now Available to try. See here for details. And here for publication.
February 2008: OB-Score and ParCryst protein crystallisation predictors now
available to try. See here for web server, or try them as part of TarO.
January 2008:
Protein Functional Site Predictions Paper in Print see here for details.
7th September 2007: A number of new papers now in print! See here for the latest!
28th May 2007: Various updates to the site.
3rd May 2007: Congratulations to Diego Miranda-Saavedra on the successful defence of his Thesis.
8th March 2007: A comparison of SCOP and CATH with respect to domain-domain interactions
published in PROTEINS. This work describes the identification of novel domain-domain interfaces important for protein interaction prediction.
25th January 2007: Classification and Functional Annotation of Protein Kinases published in PROTEINS. This work describes the development and evaluation of a new HMM library for identification and sub-classification of protein kinases. The library was used in the T. vaginalis analysis.
12th January 2007: Draft sequence of Trichomonas vaginalis published in Science. Diego and Geoff
contributed the analysis of the kinome of this important pathogen.
18th December 2006: Congratulations to Emily Jefferson on the successful defence of her Thesis.
9th October 2006: SNAPPI-DB database and API paper in print with Nucleic Acids Research.
19th September 2006: Two new papers in press - protein-protein interactions and percentage
identity in sequence alignments.
27th August 2006: Systems upgrades completed - webservices etc should be back to normal.
August 2006: OB-Score structural genomics ranking
function software and data for Pfam and omniome available here.
2007: Applications are invited for the position of
Principal Investigator in Bioinformatics or a related computational discipline.
position now available - for details please see here.
1st August 2005: PostDoc VACANCY: Senior Bioinformatics Research Officer - See here for advertisement and
further particulars. Downloadable advertisement and details of this job are here. Closing date: 31st August.
15th June 2005:David Martin's publication list added to site.
8th November 2004: Welcome to Jo van Niekerk new
research assistant to work on the "Structural Proteomics of Rational Targets - SPoRT" project, funded by BBSRC.
1st November 2004: Welcome to Jim Procter new
research assistant to work on the "Visualisation and analysis of Biological Sequences Alignments and Structures" project, funded by BBSRC.
28th October 2004: Re-organisation of this site to put Servers and Software under a single heading.
28th October 2004: Add links to the RHIMS blast visualisation paper and server.
September 2004: Welcome to Andrew Waterhouse new research assistant to work on JalView in the "Visualisation and analysis of Biological Sequences, Alignments and Structures" project, funded by BBSRC.
August 2004: £2.51 Million Scottish Bioinformatics Research Network Funding announced. See SHEFC Web site for press release (copy here). New jobs funded by this grant will be
announced shortly.
May 2004: Grant Success!! Four postdoc/RA positions. See group pages for more info on new colleagues joining the
group.
