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

• 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.
• 16th June 2006: OB-Score, structural genomics ranking function paper now available.
• 2nd June 2006: Snf2 paper in print.
  29th May 2006: Updates to About Us and photo gallery pages.
• Earlier news announcements.
• 3rd March 2006: EU Network of Excellence "ENFIN" post-doc
   
• December 2005: Welcome to Michelle Scott, CIHR Research Fellow.
• October 2005: Welcome to Cathy Stephenson - SBRN Administrator.
• 24th August: Congratulations to Jon Barber on the successful defense of his Thesis.
• 17th June 2005: Jalview multiple alignment analysis system Version 2.0 released! See the dedicated Jalview web site for details and downloads.
• 15th June 2005: OXBench multiple alignment benchmark distribution now available for download.  Read the manual, or the paper describing OXBench for more details.
• 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.
• 21st March 2005: Small updates to About Us page.
• 17th February 2005: SBF Meeting at Dundee on 17th February, organised by David Martin. See here for registration details and programme.
• 28th January 2005: Minor updates.
• 10 January 2005: .Geoff quoted on TalentScotland...
• 5th January 2005: Happy New Year! More updates to images of group and events.
   
• 19th November 2004: Updated images of group and events.
• 18th November 2004:  GOtcha paper published in BMC Bioinformatics. See paper online here and try the webserver here for predicting protein function.
• 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.
• 28th October 2004: Add links to the GOtcha protein function annotation server.
• October 2004:  Welcome to Jonathan Manning a new BBSRC. funded Ph.D. student.
• 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.
• April 2004:  Lab outing to Glen Clova
• February 2004:  JalView Java Alignment Editor paper published in Bioinformatics
• 2nd February 2004:  OC Cluster analysis program updated.
  May 2004:  Grant Success!! Four postdoc positions shortly to be advertised. Watch this space. Also see group pages for more info.
• April 2004:  Lab outing to Glen Clova
• February 2004:  JalView Java Alignment Editor paper published in Bioinformatics
• 2nd February 2004:  OC Cluster analysis program updated.
   
• 22nd December 2003: Publications updated.
• 22nd December 2003: Publications updated.
• 25th October 2003: Publications updated.
  26th August 2003: Publications updated.
  12th August 2003: Welcome to new group members!
  5th August 2003: Publications updated.
• 18th Feb 2003: New publications added.
   
• 19th Nov. 2002: Ph.D. Opportunities in the Group.
• 14th Nov. 2002: JPred-TNG launched. Updates to the JPred/JNet back-end that should give more reliable service and faster turn-round.
• 7th Oct. 2002: Updates to Jalview links.
• 18th Sept. 2002: Experimental server and software for visualising BLAST output with keyword filtering (RHIMS) available to try.
• 15th Sept. 2002: Scottish Bioinformatics Forum web site and email list now hosted here.
• 22nd August 2002: Updates to navigation on this site and more images added.
• 16th August 2002: Mailing lists for Announcements and user discussion of Group Software.
• 4th August 2002: Update to OC cluster analysis program now on server.
• August 2002: Scottish Bioinformatics User Group (BUGS) launched.
• July 2002: Experimental JPred secondary structure prediction server now availble to try at Dundee
• Photo Gallery added to this site.
• June 2002: Post Genomics Centre opened by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh
• 16th August 2002: Mailing lists for Announcements and user discussion of Group Software.
• 4th August 2002: Update to OC cluster analysis program now on server.
• August 2002: Scottish Bioinformatics User Group (BUGS) launched.
• July 2002: Experimental JPRED secondary structure prediction server at Dundee.
  Photo Gallery added to this site.
• July 2002: Deal with Random Computing and Hewlett-Packard supplies 56 2 CPU lp1000r HP netservers.
• July 2002: Post Genomics and Molecular Interactions Centre Opened.
• 1 July 2002: Tom Walsh joins the group as an EU funded postdoc to work on the TEMBLOR project.
• 1 June 2002: Goulven Kerbellec joins the group as a 3 month summer student.
• 1 May 2002: Patrick Audley joins the group as Unix systems administrator.
• 22 Jan 2002: EC funded senior postdoc position available.
   
• 01 Oct 2001: Group expands by 100%! Jonathan Barber joins the group as a BBSRC funded Ph.D. student.
• 29 Aug 2001: Phase I of Barton Group www site relocates to Dundee.
• 18 Aug 2001: "Estimation of p-values for global alignment of protein sequences - in press.

This site was last updated: Tuesday, 01 July, 2008

Geoff Barton, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research, University of Dundee, Scotland