Desmond G. Higgins

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Des Higgins
Trinity College, Dublin
(PhD)
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ThesisA numerical taxonomy of the Pterygote insects (1988)
Academic advisorsPaul M. Sharp[5][6]
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Desmond Gerard Higgins is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College Dublin,[3][12][13][14] widely known for CLUSTAL,[15] a series of computer programs for performing multiple sequence alignment. According to Nature, Higgins' papers describing CLUSTAL[10][11] are among the top ten most highly cited scientific papers of all time.[16][17][18]

Education

Higgins was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin[19] where he was awarded a PhD in 1988 for research on numerical taxonomy of Pterygote insects.[20]

Research

Research in the Higgins laboratory[3] focuses on developing new bioinformatics and statistical tools for evolutionary biology. The CLUSTAL program for multiple sequence alignment has been developed in the Higgins lab and the T-Coffee software was initially developed in the lab with by Cedric Notredame. Multivariate statistics are used to analyse microarray data sets and molecular evolution such as the evolution of promoters, introns and non-coding RNA.[12][19]

Awards and honours

Higgins was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2015.[1] He was awarded the Kimura Motoo Award in 2016 for his contributions to the advancement of evolutionary biology and molecular phylogeny.[21] In 2018, Higgins received the Benjamin Franklin Award for open access in the life sciences.[2] In March 2023, Higgins was awarded the Lennart Philipson Award in recognition of his major contributions towards enabling bioinformatics technologies based on multiple sequence alignment. [22]

References

  1. ^ a b "ISCB Fellows". International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Benjamin Franklin Award - Bioinformatics.org". www.bioinformatics.org. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Desmond G. Higgins publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
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  5. ^ "Des Higgins, PhD: Computational Biology Tree". academictree.org. Archived from the original on 14 July 2017.
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  7. ^ Des Higgins at Library of Congress
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    PMID 7984417
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  12. ^ a b "Professor Desmond Gerard Higgins B.A.(Mod), PhD". Dublin: University College Dubin. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015.
  13. ^ "Des Higgins laboratory". University College Dublin. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014.
  14. ^ Desmond G. Higgins publications from Europe PubMed Central
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  16. PMID 25355343
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  17. ^ Gorey, Colm (2014). "Irish professor Des Higgins in top 10 most cited papers of all time". Dublin: siliconrepublic.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2015.
  18. ^ Desmond G. Higgins publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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    ORCID 0000-0002-3952-3285
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  21. ^ "Prof Des Higgins to Receive Kimura Motoo Award". UCD School of Medicine. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  22. ^ "EMBL Alumni Awards Announced for 2023". EMBL Alumni Awards. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
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