Desmond G. Higgins
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Des Higgins speaking at the ISMB conference in 2015.
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| Born | Desmond Gerard Higgins |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin (BA, PhD) |
| Thesis | A numerical taxonomy of the Pterygote insects (1988) |
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| Notable awards | Fellow of the ICSB (2015)[7] |
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Desmond Gerard Higgins is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College Dublin,[1][8][9][10] widely known for CLUSTAL,[11] a series of computer programs for performing multiple sequence alignment. According to Nature, Higgins papers describing CLUSTAL[5][6] are among the top ten most highly cited scientific papers of all time.[12][13]
Education
Higgins was educated at Trinity College, Dublin[14] where he was awarded a PhD in 1988 for research on numerical taxonomy of Pterygote insects.[15]
Research
Research in the Higgins laboratory focusses on developing new bioinformatics and statistical tools for evolutionary biology. Both the CLUSTAL and T-Coffee programs for multiple sequence alignment have been developed in the Higgins lab. Multivariate statistics are used to analyse microarray data sets and molecular evolution such as the evolution of promoters, introns and non-coding RNA.[8][14]
Awards and honours
Higgins was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ICSB) in 2015.[7]
References
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- ↑ Desmond G. Higgins publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ↑ Des Higgins: Visualizing Multiple Sequence Alignments on YouTube, Broad Institute
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