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Index Desmond G. Higgins

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.[1]

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  1. 30 relations: Academic publishing, Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics), Bioinformatics, Clustal, Doctor of Philosophy, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Fellow, Genomics, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, International Society for Computational Biology, Intron, ISCB Fellow, Microarray, Molecular evolution, Multiple sequence alignment, Multivariate statistics, Nature (journal), Non-coding RNA, Nucleic Acids Research, Numerical taxonomy, Paul M. Sharp, Professor, Promoter (genetics), Pterygota, Sequence alignment, T-Coffee, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin.

  2. 20th-century Irish biologists
  3. 21st-century Irish biologists
  4. 21st-century Irish mathematicians
  5. Irish bioinformaticians

Academic publishing

Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship.

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Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)

The Benjamin Franklin Award is an annual award for Open Access in the Life Sciences presented by Bioinformatics.org to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences.

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex.

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Clustal

Clustal is a computer program used for multiple sequence alignment in bioinformatics.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Genomics

Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes.

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Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is an annual academic conference on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology organised by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

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International Society for Computational Biology

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society for researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics.

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Intron

An intron is any nucleotide sequence within a gene that is not expressed or operative in the final RNA product.

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ISCB Fellow

ISCB Fellowship is an award granted to scientists that the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) judges to have made “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”.

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Microarray

A microarray is a multiplex lab-on-a-chip.

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Molecular evolution

Molecular evolution describes how inherited DNA and/or RNA change over evolutionary time, and the consequences of this for proteins and other components of cells and organisms.

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Multiple sequence alignment

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is the process or the result of sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences, generally protein, DNA, or RNA.

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Multivariate statistics

Multivariate statistics is a subdivision of statistics encompassing the simultaneous observation and analysis of more than one outcome variable, i.e., multivariate random variables.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Non-coding RNA

A non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is a functional RNA molecule that is not translated into a protein.

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Nucleic Acids Research

Nucleic Acids Research is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1974 by the Oxford University Press.

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Numerical taxonomy

Numerical taxonomy is a classification system in biological systematics which deals with the grouping by numerical methods of taxonomic units based on their character states.

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Paul M. Sharp

Paul Martin Sharp (born 1957) is Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, where he holds the Alan Robertson chair of genetics in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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In genetics, a promoter is a sequence of DNA to which proteins bind to initiate transcription of a single RNA transcript from the DNA downstream of the promoter.

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Pterygota

The Pterygota (winged) are a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and the orders that are secondarily wingless (that is, insect groups whose ancestors once had wings but that have lost them as a result of subsequent evolution).

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Sequence alignment

In bioinformatics, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences.

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T-Coffee

T-Coffee (Tree-based Consistency Objective Function for Alignment Evaluation) is a multiple sequence alignment software using a progressive approach.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland.

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University College Cork

University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.

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University College Dublin

University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) (Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland.

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See also

20th-century Irish biologists

21st-century Irish biologists

21st-century Irish mathematicians

Irish bioinformaticians

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_G._Higgins

Also known as Des Higgins, Desmond Higgins.