Geoff Barton

🌍 Twelve months of hard work - endless possibilities for world science. Watch our video tribute to the Jalview community for making 2025 such an incredible year for all of us!
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Thank you all ❤️

🎉 Happy #new #year to everyone!

📢 No better way to kickstart 2026 than by sharing our latest work, now available on #Open #Biology by @royalsociety.org. The title is "Mutations within the predicted fragment-binding region of FAM83G/SACK1G abolish ints interaction with the Ser/Thr kinase CK1α".

Jalview team members Geoff, Jim, Khadija, Renia and Ben posing for a festive photo in the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee!

❄️Thank you so much to all our users and followers worldwide for making 2025 such a memorable year for us! Seasons greetings to all from the Jalview team all the way from wintry Scotland.❄️

We hope to see you in the new year! ❤️

Erasmus live updates: Scheme to return for UK students from 2027 British students will be able to spend a year studying at EU universities without paying extra fees, and vice versa for European students.

I have to say how happy I am that at least one of the disasters due to Brexit has been undone!
Erasmus was always an amazing way to bring talented students to my lab to gain experience, great to see it will be possible again in the future! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

💡Beacon of hope!

Did you know Jalview allows you to access thousands of experimental and predicted protein structures programmatically through the 3D Beacons network?

🔽Find out how on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDZ...

One of those November sunsets at Dundee Scotland today 😀

Yes, core funded research institutes do this (EMBL, CRUK, MRC-LMB, MaxPlanck etc) but it is rare for universities to.

Which ones? I want a job there!! Not in the UK not even Oxbridge. The closest to this is a few core funded research institutes but even there everyone is subject to a 5-year review and outcome is linked to funding. Maybe Switzerland?

Forecast suggests it will be windy through the night. Much worse over on the West Coast of course! Stay safe!

You may be right. I guess someone here might find official statistics on shootings in the uk and gun deaths. This might guide what ‘mass’ means. As a layman I tend to think of large tragedies as mass. Clearly the USA ‘wins’ but maybe the numbers in the post were for all shootings?

You mean the USA I assume? In the UK there are perhaps 1 or 2 incidents with 4 or more people shot/year. There have thankfully only been a couple of terrible mass shootings in my lifetime. Hungerford (1980s) and Dunblane(1990s) Dunblane led to a total ban on hand gun ownership in the UK.

UK numbers look way off. Far too big.

I never used them but my PhD desk room in the basement at Birkbeck London had boxes of them on the high shelves. They mostly hand reflection data from X-ray crystallography experiments I think 🤔

The new secondary structure annotation tree showcasing all protein secondary structure providers available for sequences in a sample ferredoxin alignment in Jalview 2.11.5.

🚀 Jalview 2.11.5 is here!

New features include:
✅ Tree visualisation for enhanced protein secondary structure analysis
✅ Consensus colouring for alignments and subgroups
✅ Improved command line options for 3D structure visualisation

Plus, key bug fixes and performance improvements.

I timed it perfectly to be in the entirety of the storm for my 20 min walk…. Ho hum!

The rain was lovely and warm!

So much for the theory that I’d miss the storm if I left for home…

Well I got that wrong…

My office is really hot so I might just go home and lounge by the pool... Oh, I don't have a pool! Drat!

Another great day for weather at #sunny #dundee. Actually peaked at almost 27 degrees!

Some of the best features introduced to Jalview over the last few years! 😀

Still breezy but nothing too bad at #Dundee #scotland #UK
Forecast suggests it should get a bit windier by 18:00 but perhaps not?

Very quiet at work today - many people staying home to avoid the forecast winds later today. Just beginning to pick up now but the peak is forecast for 16:00 today... Take care if you are out and about!

Great new features in Jalview that allow you to explore protein structures predicted by AlphaFold

Do people really collect this junk???

I threw a pile of SGI stuff out a couple of years ago. I think I kept the green Indigo2 XZ though since it was the first SGI I’d bought thanks to a BBSRC grant around 1993?. All the peripherals went to recycling…

Actually, it was a COMPAQ one so @ewanbirney.bsky.social might appreciate that…

They used to flash when bounced but the batteries are long dead!

Nice pen! I have some SGI bouncy balls from the late 1990s. Oh and Sun Microsystems ones with ‘We are the dot in dot com’ on them!

Saying hi to the giant Beatles statue…. Random tourist photo bombed my selfie!!!

Liverpool #ismbeccb2025 starts tomorrow.