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Desmond G. Higgins
Researcher at University College Dublin
Publications - 134
Citations - 176736
Desmond G. Higgins is an academic researcher from University College Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Multiple sequence alignment & Alignment-free sequence analysis. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 134 publications receiving 166601 citations. Previous affiliations of Desmond G. Higgins include National Institutes of Health & University College Cork.
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Clustal w: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
TL;DR: The sensitivity of the commonly used progressive multiple sequence alignment method has been greatly improved and modifications are incorporated into a new program, CLUSTAL W, which is freely available.
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The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools.
TL;DR: ClUSTAL X is a new windows interface for the widely-used progressive multiple sequence alignment program CLUSTAL W, providing an integrated system for performing multiple sequence and profile alignments and analysing the results.
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Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
Mark A. Larkin,Gordon Blackshields,Nigel P. Brown,R. Chenna,Paul A. McGettigan,Hamish McWilliam,Franck Valentin,Iain M. Wallace,Andreas Wilm,Rodrigo Lopez,J.D. Thompson,Toby J. Gibson,Desmond G. Higgins +12 more
TL;DR: The Clustal W and ClUSTal X multiple sequence alignment programs have been completely rewritten in C++ to facilitate the further development of the alignment algorithms in the future and has allowed proper porting of the programs to the latest versions of Linux, Macintosh and Windows operating systems.
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Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega
Fabian Sievers,Andreas Wilm,David Dineen,Toby J. Gibson,Kevin Karplus,Weizhong Li,Rodrigo Lopez,Hamish McWilliam,Michael Remmert,Johannes Söding,Julie D. Thompson,Desmond G. Higgins +11 more
TL;DR: A new program called Clustal Omega is described, which can align virtually any number of protein sequences quickly and that delivers accurate alignments, and which outperforms other packages in terms of execution time and quality.
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T-Coffee: A novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment.
TL;DR: A new method for multiple sequence alignment that provides a dramatic improvement in accuracy with a modest sacrifice in speed as compared to the most commonly used alternatives but avoids the most serious pitfalls caused by the greedy nature of this algorithm.