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.

See details of our exciting new building - the Centre for Translational and Interdisciplinary Research!

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!

Sept 2011:
Thanks to everyone who attended our mini-symposium on the 8th September!  We are glad so many of you enjoyed it!

July 2011:
Farewell to Michelle Scott who, after a very successful six years in the group has now moved on to start her own group at the Universite de Sherbrooke Canada.

May 2011:
New papers including the Java Bioinformatics Web Services paper and website.

April 2011:
Welcome to Manikhandan Mudaliar.  Mani has joined the Data Analysis Group as a research associate.

.November 2010:
Welcome to Tara Eckenrode.  Tara will be doing her Ph.D. in the group over the next 3.5 years.

September 2010:
Genome Scroller goes live in the College of Life Sciences Atrium.
GS is a collaboration with the Visual Effects Research Lab in the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

August 2010:
See the video of
 Geoff Barton's talk on sequence alignment visualisation, given at the Vizbi workshop in Heidelberg.

August 2010:
David Martin's Prophossi paper "Automating expert validation of  phosphopeptide spectrum matches from tandem mass spectrometry" and website published.

July 2010:
Michelle Scott's nucleolar localisation signal predictor published in NAR! - See the database here.

June 2010:
Congratulations to Mark McDowall on his second prize in the ISCB student poster competition at ISMB2010.