Desmond G. Higgins
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Desmond Gerard Higgins is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College Dublin,[9][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[4][5] are among the top ten most highly cited scientific papers of all time.[16][17][18]
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Born | Desmond Gerard Higgins (1959-07-17) 17 July 1959 (age 64)[1] |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin (PhD) |
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Thesis | A numerical taxonomy of the Pterygote insects (1988) |
Academic advisors | Paul M. Sharp[10][11] |
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