Janet Thornton
British bioinformatician and academic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dame Janet Maureen Thornton, DBE FRS FMedSci FRSC (born 23 May 1949)[1] is a senior scientist and director emeritus at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).[12][13][14] She is one of the world's leading researchers in structural bioinformatics, using computational methods to understand protein structure and function.[6][15][16][17] She served as director of the EBI from October 2001 to June 2015, and played a key role in ELIXIR.[4]
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Born | Janet Maureen McLoughlin[1] (1949-05-23) 23 May 1949 (age 75) |
Nationality | British |
Education | Bury Grammar School[2] |
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Alan D. Thornton ā (m. 1970) |
Children | 2[1] |
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Thesis | The conformation of dinucleotides (1975) |
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Website | www |
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