Archived Jalview News Items (2011-2021)

  • Jalview 2 paper citations

    in general news

    We are encouraged by the numbers of scientists across the globe who use Jalview. It helps us, if people who use Jalview would cite our Jalview 2 paper when they publish research that utilises Jalview. Thank you to those of you who have done this. In the last five years according to Web of Science, the paper has been cited in 1,121 articles. Jalview Version 2 - a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench Read more →

  • Jalview Lightning Talk

    in training news

    Suzanne presented Jalview at the Division of Computational Biology’s lightning talks here at College of Life Sciences, chaired by Geoff Barton. Marek G certainly had the the best slide, it was an Orwellian 1984 experience.

  • Jalview is on the move

    in general news

    In the next month or so, Team Jalview will start packing up their office in preparation for the move into the newly built Centre for Translational and Interdisciplinary Research extension, here at the College of Life Sciences. We have some pictures of the building taken during construction.

  • LAST WEEK for the Jalview Visual Analytics Computational Scientist/ Software Developer/ Software Engineer job advert

    in general news

    The position is available for up to 5 years. The job will involve using Java to develop Jalview; the open source, interactive visualisation program for alignment and analysis of biological sequence data.

  • New Jalview Poll

    in community news

    We have set up a single question poll on the front page of our website for our users. Anyone can vote and view the results (one ip address/one vote). So far the bioinformatician (45%) are neck to neck with the biologists (41%).

  • Jalview Hands-on Training Course

    in training news

    33 participants logged into their UoD computers at 9am on Friday 11th April to attend the Jalview Hands-on Day Training Course. The course was a combination of talks and hands-on exercises involving working through Jalview manual with help from Jim Procter. Course material can be found at: http://www.jalview.org/tutorial/training-materials/2014/Dundee/Apr/

  • Job Opportunities for Java Software Developer/ Computational Scientist

    in general news

    We are advertising for 2 Visual Analytics Computational Scientist/Developers. The job will involve redesigning the open source, visual, analytics platform Jalview. This is a powerful interactive visualisation program for alignment and analysis of biological sequence data. For more information on the job and how to apply, visit http://www.jobs.dunde e.ac.uk/fe/tpl_uod01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=86617,4148461261&key=8705959 6&c=352565783498&pagestamp=serqasxillywuinqjl Closing Date is the Monday 5 May. The jobs are in the Barton Group (University of Dundee) in the new Centre for Translational and Interdisciplinary Research. Read more →

  • Jalview at VIZBI 2014 EMBO conference

    in training news

    Both Jim and Suzanne attended VIZBI 2014 EMBO conference on Visualizing Biological Data in Heidelberg. Jim, with Seán O’Donoghue (below), organised the event. It is always a friendly and interesting meeting and this year was no exception. Jim gave a lightening poster presentation on Jalview (photo exactly 35 seconds in). Suzanne ran a workshop and chaired one of the informal break-out sessions about training.

  • Suzanne is the new Jalview outreach officer

    in general news

    Dr Suzanne Duce joined Team Jalview at the start of February as training and outreach officer to support Jalview users by developing training materials, running workshops and extending the on-line presence of Jalview and the other Dundee Protein Resource services such as Jabaws, Jpred, Kinomer and Taro. After a first degree in Chemistry at the University of Southampton, Suzanne worked at the Institute of Food Research (Norwich) before study for a PhD in MRI at the University of Cambridge. Read more →

  • Jalview update! 2.8.0b1 Released

    in general news

    Jalview 2.8.0b1 is a bugfix release for Jalview version 2.8. This bug fix release includes numerous minor enhancements made over the last 12 months. Importantly, it is also the first release that provides Jalview as a trusted application, signed with a certificate donated to us by Certum. As usual you can find the comprehensive list in the Jalview 2.8.0b1 Release Notes. Enhancements and new features Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred works allow import of data from gzipped files Improved per-sequence ‘colour-by-annotation’ performance Support ’’ style escaping of quotes in Newick files group options for JABAWS service by command line name Select primary source when selecting authority in database fetcher GUI COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows add . Read more →