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28) Des Higgins - Early days of bioinformatics, Clustal and democratising sequence alignments
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Des Higgins (EMBL-EBI Group Leader, 1990-1996) speaks with Thomas Vaccari (EMBL Predoctoral fellow, 1999-2004) about the "wild west" early days of bioinformatics, the establishment of EMBL-EBI and the collaboration which led to the Clustal programme. Des also reflects on the impact on his career of EBI co-founder Michael Ashburner
This interview was conducted in July 2023.
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Production and Editing: EMBL Alumni Relations
Content and Interviews: Angus Lamond and Thomas Vaccari
Music: Eco Technology by Aleksey Chistilin from Pixabay
Thanks to: EMBL Audiovisual and EMBL Design
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