Desmond G. Higgins
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Des Higgins speaking at the ISMB conference in 2015. | |
| Born | Desmond Gerard Higgins 17 July 1959 |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin (PhD) |
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| Thesis | A numerical taxonomy of the Pterygote insects (1988) |
| Academic advisors | Paul M. Sharp |
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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.