News 1999-2013 | The Barton Group | Bioinformatics Research | Division of Computational Biology

22nd Oct 2013:
Two Job opportunities to join the Jalview Team! Please see details here.
15th Oct 2013:
Welcome to Reema Singh who has joined us on a collaborative project with Pauline Schaap’s group.
1st Sept 2013:
Welcome to Fabio Marques-Madeira who has joined the group as a Wellcome Trust Ph.D. student!
4th July 2013:
Geoff Barton talking in 2010 about bioinformatics and 10 years of the human genome.
17th June 2013:
Chris Cole featured on STV news with Hollywood actor Brian Cox opening the College of Life Sciences Genomic Sequencing Unit.
April 2013:
Update to Geoff Barton’s guide to: “The UK Academic System”.
April 2013:
Visit to the new CTIR building Level 2 which will be our home from January 2014. Photos here. More photos here, and video here!
Mar 2013:
Welcome to Joe Ward! New postdoc in NGS sequencing bioinformatics.
Jan 2013:
Happy New Year! Small updates to People page.
Nov 2012:
Welcome to Thiago Britto Borges who has joined the group on the CAPES Brazil programme.
Sep 2012:
Welcome to Nancy Giang who has joined the group as a Ph.D. student on the Wellcome Trust Programme.
Aug 6th 2012:
Welcome to Konstantinos Moutselos who has joined the DAG as a post-doc/programmer in proteomics.
Aug 2012:
TWO Senior postdoc positions available. See: Advert1 and Advert2 for details and jobs.dundee.ac.uk to apply. Closing date 30th September 2012.
uly 2012:
BBSRC grant awarded to support development of JPRED, Kinomer and JABAWS for 5-years! We will shortly be advertising two positions funded off this grant.
July 2012:
Bioinformatics/Data Analysis position to join the Data Analysis Group, to be advertised shortly.
July 2012:
Farewell to Mani who has taken up a new position with the University of Glasgow. Good luck Mani and thanks for all your contributions to the group.
Jan 2012:
Farewell to Peter Troshin who has taken the plunge as an independent software consultant! Good luck Peter!
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.

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.
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.
June 2008: Two long-term positions in bioinformatics available. See here for the advert and here for further particulars - APPLICATIONS CLOSED.
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.

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