Geoff Barton (scientist)

Geoff Barton
FRSE, FRSB
Geoff Barton FRSE, FRSB
	Barton outside the Discovery Centre, University of Dundee, July 2025
Born	Geoffrey John Barton; 1 November 1960; Glenelg, South Australia
Citizenship	United Kingdom/Australia
Education	University of Manchester; Birkbeck, University of London;
Known for	Sequence alignment software, Protein structure prediction, Jalview, JPred
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology;
	Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics; Multiple Sequence Alignment; Protein structure prediction; Genetics; Transcriptomics; Machine learning;
Institutions	University of Dundee; European Bioinformatics Institute; University of Oxford; Imperial Cancer Research Fund;
Thesis	Computer analysis of protein sequence and structure (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Sternberg
Website	www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk

Geoffrey ''Geoff'' John Barton (born 1 November 1960) is a computational biologist and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Dundee, Scotland, in the UK where he is Head of the Division of Computational Biology in the School of Life Sciences. He is known for his research in computational biology, particularly in the analysis of protein sequences and structures, and for the development of widely used bioinformatics software Jalview. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy.