Dr Benjamin Jefferys

University College London

Research Associate
Centre for Computational Science
University College London

Research interests

Projects

Past projects

I was previously a PhD student and Research Associate in the Structural Bioinformatics Group at the Imperial College Centre for Bioinformatics. Developing Poing, a physical model for protein structure prediction, funded by the BBSRC (grant reference), which has now been released on SourceForge.

Science

Art

Publications

Publications


Daniel Chubb, Benjamin R. Jefferys, Michael J. E. Sternberg and Lawrence A. Kelley
Sequencing delivers diminishing returns for homology detection: implications for mapping the protein universe
OUP Bioinformatics Volume 26, Issue 21, Pages 2664-2671


Benjamin R. Jefferys, Lawrence A. Kelley, Michael J.E. Sternberg
Protein Folding Requires Crowd Control in a Simulated Cell
Journal of Molecular Biology Volume 397, Issue 5, 16 April 2010, Pages 1329-1338 (open access)


Benjamin R. Jefferys, Lawrence A. Kelley, Marek J. Sergot, John Fox, Michael J.E. Sternberg
Capturing expert knowledge with argumentation: a case study in bioinformatics
OUP Bioinformatics 22 (8) January 2006 (open access) Server


Using DNA to Generate 3D Organic Art Forms

Conference presentations

Conference presentations


Click on video to view in full HD on YouTube
ISMB 2010 Highlights Track
Protein Folding Requires Crowd Control in a Simulated Cell

CASP8 (2008) participation
From comparative modeling to de novo folding with Phyre, Poing and Phragment (page 111 of abstracts book)

3DSIG 2008 oral communication
Poing: a fast and simple model for protein structure prediction


ISMB 2008 Visual Reflections on Science exhibition
Deliberately obfuscated visualisation of forces hypothesized to be important for protein folding in a TIM barrel domain Video


SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketch
From DNA to 3D Organic Art Forms Film on YouTube


Show at NIMR
FoldGrow Film on YouTube

Collaborators

UCL

Dr David Chang
Dr Ali Haidar
Prof. Peter Coveney

Imperial College London

Dr Lawrence Kelley
Dr Daniel Chubb
Prof. Mike Sternberg

Goldsmiths College, University of London

Prof. William Latham
Prof. Frederic Fol Leymarie

Contact

Telephone +44 (0)20 7679 5300
Email b.jefferys - at - ucl.ac.uk