Desmond G. Higgins

Des Higgins

Des Higgins speaking at the ISMB conference in 2015.
Born Desmond G. Higgins
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin (PhD)
Thesis A numerical taxonomy of the Pterygote insects (1981)
Known for
Notable awards Fellow of the ICSB[5]
Website
www.bioinf.ucd.ie

Desmond G. Higgins is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College Dublin,[1][6][7] widely known for CLUSTAL,[8] a series of computer programs for performing multiple sequence alignment. According to Nature, Higgins papers describing CLUSTAL[3][4] are among the top ten most highly cited scientific papers of all time.[9][10]

Education

Higgins was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he was awarded a PhD in 1981 for research on numerical taxonomy of Pterygote insects.[11]

Awards and honours

Higgins was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ICSB) in 2015.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Desmond G. Higgins's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. 1 2 Notredame, C. D.; Higgins, D. G.; Heringa, J. (2000). "T-coffee: A novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment". Journal of Molecular Biology 302 (1): 205–17. doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.4042. PMID 10964570.
  3. 1 2 Thompson, J. D.; Gibson, T. J.; Plewniak, F.; Jeanmougin, F.; Higgins, D. G. (1997). "The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: Flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools". Nucleic Acids Research 25 (24): 4876–4882. doi:10.1093/nar/25.24.4876. PMC 147148. PMID 9396791.
  4. 1 2 Thompson, J. D.; Higgins, D. G.; Gibson, T. J. (1994). "CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice". Nucleic Acids Research 22 (22): 4673–4680. doi:10.1093/nar/22.22.4673. PMC 308517. PMID 7984417.
  5. 1 2 "ISCB Fellows". International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2015-04-15.
  6. ↑ "Des Higgins laboratory". University College Dublin. Archived from the original on 2014-12-14.
  7. ↑ Desmond G. Higgins publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. ↑ Des Higgins: Visualizing Multiple Sequence Alignments on YouTube, Broad Institute
  9. ↑ Van Noorden, R.; Maher, B.; Nuzzo, R. (2014). "The top 100 papers: Nature explores the most-cited research of all time". Nature (London) 514 (7524): 550. doi:10.1038/514550a. PMID 25355343.
  10. ↑ Colm Gorey (2014). "Irish professor Des Higgins in top 10 most cited papers of all time". Dublin: siliconrepublic.com. Archived from the original on 2015-06-05.
  11. ↑ Higgins, Des (1981). A numerical taxonomy of Pterygote insects (PhD thesis). Trinity College, Dublin. OCLC 842505334.
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