This page contains announcements that were previously on the home page.
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.
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.
