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Desmond G. Higgins

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Gender Male
Age 64
Date of birth July 17,1959
Zodiac sign Cancer
Alma mater Trinity College Dublin
Known for Clustal
T-Coffee
Academic advisor Paul M. Sharp
Institutions University College Dublin
University College Cork
Awards Benjamin Franklin Award
ISCB Fellow
AffiliationsUniversity College Dublin
Education Trinity College Dublin
InterestsEvolution
Bioinformatics
Sequence Alignment
Genomics
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Desmond G. Higgins Life story


Desmond Gerard Higgins is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College Dublin, widely known for CLUSTAL, a series of computer programs for performing multiple sequence alignment. According to Nature, Higgins' papers describing CLUSTAL are among the top ten most highly cited scientific papers of all time.

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