Desmond G. Higgins

ScholarGPS™ ID: 61941135697998

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University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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Life Sciences

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Biology and Biological Sciences

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120

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The Clustal Omega Multiple Alignment Package (book chapter) In Multiple Sequence Alignment Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G. Springer US (2021) 10.1007/978-1-0716-1036-7_1 Cited by (63) \| Cite \| Source
QuanTest2: benchmarking multiple sequence alignments using secondary structure prediction (journal article) Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G Bioinformatics, volume 36, issue 1, pages 90-95 (2020). 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz552 Cited by (6) \| Cite \| Source
The Birth and Death of Olfactory Receptor Gene Families in Mammalian Niche Adaptation (journal article) Hughes, Graham M \| Boston, Emma S M \| Finarelli, John A \| Murphy, William J \| Higgins, Desmond G \| Teeling, Emma C Molecular Biology and Evolution, volume 35, issue 6, pages 1390-1406 (2018). 10.1093/molbev/msy028 Cited by (55) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
TPP riboswitch-dependent regulation of an ancient thiamin transporter in Candida (journal article) Donovan, Paul D. \| Holland, Linda M. \| Lombardi, Lisa \| Coughlan, Aisling Y. \| Higgins, Desmond G. \| Wolfe, Kenneth H. \| Butler, Geraldine PLOS Genetics, volume 14, issue 5, pages e1007429- (2018). 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007429 Cited by (15) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Identification of fungi in shotgun metagenomics datasets (journal article) Donovan, Paul D. \| Gonzalez, Gabriel \| Higgins, Desmond G. \| Butler, Geraldine \| Ito, Kimihito PLOS ONE, volume 13, issue 2, pages e0192898- (2018). 10.1371/journal.pone.0192898 Cited by (51) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Clustal Omega for making accurate alignments of many protein sequences (journal article) Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G. Protein Science, volume 27, issue 1, pages 135-145 (2018). 10.1002/pro.3290 Cited by (721) \| Cite \| Source
Retinoic acid and TGF-β signalling cooperate to overcome MYCN-induced retinoid resistance (journal article) Duffy, David J. \| Krstic, Aleksandar \| Halasz, Melinda \| Schwarzl, Thomas \| Konietzny, Anja \| Iljin, Kristiina \| Higgins, Desmond G. \| Kolch, Walter Genome Medicine, volume 9, issue 1 (2017). 10.1186/s13073-017-0407-3 Cited by (26) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Protein multiple sequence alignment benchmarking through secondary structure prediction (journal article) Le, Quan \| Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G Bioinformatics, volume 33, issue 9, pages 1331-1337 (2017). 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw840 Cited by (24) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Multiple Origins of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida orthopsilosis by Separate Hybridizations between Two Parental Species (journal article) Schröder, Markus S. \| Martinez de San Vicente, Kontxi \| Prandini, Tâmara H. R. \| Hammel, Stephen \| Higgins, Desmond G. \| Bagagli, Eduardo \| Wolfe, Kenneth H. \| Butler, Geraldine PLOS Genetics, volume 12, issue 11, pages e1006404- (2016). 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006404 Cited by (51) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Identification of Non-Coding RNAs in the Candida parapsilosis Species Group (journal article) Donovan, Paul D. \| Schröder, Markus S. \| Higgins, Desmond G. \| Butler, Geraldine PLOS ONE, volume 11, issue 9, pages e0163235- (2016). 10.1371/journal.pone.0163235 Cited by (7) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Wnt signalling is a bi-directional vulnerability of cancer cells (journal article) Duffy, David J. \| Krstic, Aleksandar \| Schwarzl, Thomas \| Halasz, Melinda \| Iljin, Kristiina \| Fey, Dirk \| Haley, Bridget \| Whilde, Jenny \| Haapa-Paananen, Saija \| Fey, Vidal \| ... \| Kolch, Walter Oncotarget, volume 7, issue 37, pages 60310-60331 (2016). 10.18632/oncotarget.11203 Cited by (25) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
ProViz—a web-based visualization tool to investigate the functional and evolutionary features of protein sequences (journal article) Jehl, Peter \| Manguy, Jean \| Shields, Denis C. \| Higgins, Desmond G. \| Davey, Norman E. Nucleic Acids Research, volume 44, issue W1, pages W11-W15 (2016). 10.1093/nar/gkw265 Cited by (45) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Using de novo protein structure predictions to measure the quality of very large multiple sequence alignments (journal article) Fox, Gearóid \| Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G. Bioinformatics, volume 32, issue 6, pages 814-820 (2016). 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv592 Cited by (18) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Integrative omics reveals MYCN as a global suppressor of cellular signalling and enables network-based therapeutic target discovery in neuroblastoma (journal article) Duffy, David J. \| Krstic, Aleksandar \| Halasz, Melinda \| Schwarzl, Thomas \| Fey, Dirk \| Iljin, Kristiina \| Mehta, Jai Prakash \| Killick, Kate \| Whilde, Jenny \| Turriziani, Benedetta \| ... \| Kolch, Walter Oncotarget, volume 6, issue 41, pages 43182-43201 (2015). 10.18632/oncotarget.6568 Cited by (31) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
OD-seq: outlier detection in multiple sequence alignments (journal article) Jehl, Peter \| Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G. BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16, issue 1 (2015). 10.1186/s12859-015-0702-1 Cited by (23) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Instability in progressive multiple sequence alignment algorithms (journal article) Boyce, Kieran \| Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G. Algorithms for Molecular Biology, volume 10, issue 1 (2015). 10.1186/s13015-015-0057-1 Cited by (17) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Measuring Transcription Rate Changes via Time-Course 4-Thiouridine Pulse-Labelling Improves Transcriptional Target Identification (journal article) Schwarzl, Thomas \| Higgins, Desmond G. \| Kolch, Walter \| Duffy, David J. Journal of Molecular Biology, volume 427, issue 21, pages 3368-3374 (2015). 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.09.006 Cited by (11) \| Cite \| Source
Multiple sequence alignment using Clustal Omega (journal article) Sievers, Fabian \| Higgins, Desmond G. F1000Research, volume 4 (2015). 10.7490/f1000research.1110256.1 Cite \| Source
Systematic exploration of guide-tree topology effects for small protein alignments (journal article) Sievers, Fabian \| Hughes, Graham M \| Higgins, Desmond G BMC Bioinformatics, volume 15, issue 1, pages 338- (2014). 10.1186/1471-2105-15-338 Cited by (9) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Genes and signaling networks regulated during zebrafish optic vesicle morphogenesis (journal article) Yin, Jun \| Morrissey, Maria E \| Shine, Lisa \| Kennedy, Ciarán \| Higgins, Desmond G \| Kennedy, Breandán N BMC Genomics, volume 15, issue 1 (2014). 10.1186/1471-2164-15-825 Cited by (16) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access