GENIES program is live

GENIES is a computer program developed to facilitate the study of genome sequences in a comparative way using the information entropy. The program can analyse genomes of any size by converting the genetic information contained in a given genome into a numerical Information Entropy Spectrum. This procedure is done for two genomes of the same size, one being a reference genome and the other being its mutated version. The program allows fast detection of base point mutations from the Information Entropy Spectra. Most importantly, the program could be used to research and identify predictive algorithms of future genetic mutations. 

Dr Vopson made this code freely available from this repository, where a user manual is also available:  

https://sourceforge.net/projects/information-entropy-spectrum/

 

PhD awarded to Michal Belusky

It is my pleasure to announce today the successful PhD VIVA examination of Michal Belusky. This is a very important milestone for the UoP / SMAP / Physics, as this is our first ever Physics PhD graduate (non ICG), since reopening Physics in 2010.
Michal published 4 peer review articles as part of his PhD work (listed below), he presented his work at two conferences including one in Sweden, he submitted his PhD thesis on time (just under 3 years) and he has been very active in helping with our Physics teaching activities, including Physics laboratories and projects supervision.

Many congratulations to Dr. Michal Belusky.

M. Belusky, S. Lepadatu, J. Naylor, M. Vopson, Evidence of substrate roughness surface induced magnetic anisotropy in NiFe flexible thin films, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 478, 77-83 (2019).

M. Belusky, S. Lepadatu, J. Naylor, M. Vopson, Study of roughness effect in Fe and Co thin films prepared by plasma magnetron sputtering, Physica B: Condensed Matter 574, 411666 (2019)

M. Vopson, M. Belusky, S. Lepadatu, Diamagnetic coupling for magnetic tuning in nano-thin films, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 116, issue 25, 252402 (2020).

M. Vopson, X. Tan, E. Namvar, M. Belusky, S.P. Thompson, V. Kuncser, F. Plazaola, I. Unzueta, C.C. Tang, Sub-lattice polarization states in anti-ferroelectrics and their relaxation process, Current Applied Physics Vol. 19, issue 5, pp. 651-656 (2019).

The Information Catastrophe

 

  Read more here: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0019941