In the News

• JCP cover
  

  Our article Sequence-dependent thermodynamics of a coarse-grained DNA model is featured on the front cover of the 7 October 2012 issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics. The paper was in the Top 20 most downloaded JCP articles for October 2012.

  
  
  
• CUDA Centre of Excellence
  NVIDIA has named the University of Oxford a CUDA Centre of Excellence in recognition of its ongoing work in parallel computing research and education using NVIDIA GPUs and the NVIDIA CUDA® parallel programming environment. One of the highlighted areas was our group's use of molecular dynamics simulations to study DNA nanotechnology. For more information see the press releases from NVIDIA and Oxford University, and a further article on the NVIDIA website.



• oxDNA
  

  The simulation code that implements our coarse-grained DNA model has been released. This was announced at FNANO12 in April 2012. The website for the code is http://dna.physics.ox.ac.uk.

  
  
  
• Hot article in Soft Matter
  

  Our article Templated self-assembly of patchy particles in Soft Matter. has been selected as a hot article in the 2 March 2011 entry of the RSC Soft Matter Blog.

  
  
  
• JCP cover
  

  Our article Structural, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of a coarse-grained DNA model is featured on the front cover of the 28 February 2011 issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics.

  
  
  
• JPCM cover
  

  Our article Modelling the self-assembly of virus capsids is featured on the front cover of the 17 March 2010 issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. The article was also selected as part of the Highlights of 2010 collection for the journal, and the accompanying brochure.

  
  
  
• DNA blogged
  

  Our recent preprint DNA nanotweezers studied with a coarse-grained model of DNA was recently featured on the Equilibrium Blog The picture depicts the DNA nanotweezers in their closed form.

  
  
  
• Complex networks citation network
  

  A recent paper by Raddicchi et al. entitled Diffusion of scientific credits and the ranking of scientists (Phys. Rev. E 80, 056103 (2009)) proposes a new way to rank scientists similar to the Google Page ranking system. (See the feature on the APS Physics site.) The paper included a representation of the scientific citation network for papers published in the Physical Review on complex networks, where only the "top physicists in this field are shown" (Figure 2). There's a small node corresponding to me towards the bottom right.

  
  
  
• JCP cover
  

  Our article Self-assembly of monodisperse clusters: Dependence on target geometry is featured on the front cover of the 7 November 2009 issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics. The paper was in the Top 20 most downloaded JCP articles for November 2009.

  
  
  
• PCCP cover
  

  Our invited article for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on Controlling Crystallization and its Absence: Proteins, colloids and patchy models is featured on the front cover of the 14 May 2007 issue. The paper was the most downloaded PCCP article for May 2007.

  
  
  
• Science! on blogue
  Our recent article Power-law distributions for the areas of the basins of attraction on a potential energy landscape (Phys. Rev. E 75, 037101 (2007)) was featured on Professor Normand Mousseau's French language science blog: See La revanche de Platon (premiere partie,deuxieme partie).
  
  
• Cambridge Templeton Consortium
  The Cambridge Templeton Consortium was launched in April 2005. The John Templeton Foundation has made $3 million available to the Consortium to fund research into the emergence of biological complexity at the biochemical, evolutionary and societal levels. Jonathan Doye, along with Ard Louis, is responisible for the 'biochemistry and fine-tuning' program.
  
  
• Polytetrahedral clusters
  A brief commentary on my paper on polytetrahedral clusters (Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5719-5722 (2001)) appeared in the Editor's Choice section of Science (Unconventional Clusters, Science, 292, 2401 (2001))
  
  
• Harrison Prize
  I recieved the 2000 Harrison Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry for my contribution to the statistical mechanics of atomic clusters and polymer crystal growth.
  The full citation appeared in Chemistry in Britain, June 2001, p68.
  Also featured in Chem@Cam, Autumn 2001
  
  
• New Lennard-Jones global minimum
  Commentaries on the discovery of a new tetrahedral global minimum for LJ₉₈ (Phys. Rev. E 60, R6320-R6322 (1999)) appeared in:
  • Optimal paths to atomic clusters, Science News, 156, 255 (1999)
    
  • The Leary tetrahedron: A new approach to global optimization, NPACI & SDSC Online, 3 (Issue 19, Sept. 15 1999).