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Desmond G. Higgins

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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. [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.

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 award for Open Access in the Life Sciences presented by Bioinformatics.org.

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data.

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Clustal

Clustal is a series of widely used computer programs used in Bioinformatics for multiple sequence alignment.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Evolution

Evolution is 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 that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.

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Fellow

A fellow is a member of a group (or fellowship) that work together in pursuing mutual knowledge or practice.

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Genomics

Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of science 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

Founded in 1997, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society for researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics working towards advancing understanding of living systems through computation and for communicating scientific advances worldwide.

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Intron

An intron is any nucleotide sequence within a gene that is removed by RNA splicing during maturation of 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 is the process of change in the sequence composition of cellular molecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins across generations.

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Multiple sequence alignment

A multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a 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.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.

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Non-coding RNA

A non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is an 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 by 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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Promoter (genetics)

In genetics, a promoter is a region of DNA that initiates transcription of a particular gene.

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Pterygota

The Pterygota are a subclass of insects that includes the winged insects.

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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 (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, a research university located in Dublin, Ireland.

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University College Cork

University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Irish: 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; An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a research university in Dublin, Ireland.

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References

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

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