Dame Janet Maureen Thornton, DBE, FRS FMedSci is a British scientist, and Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute. She is one of the world?s leading researchers in structural bioinformatics, using computational methods to understand protein structure and function. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, interfacing with structural biology, bioinformatics, biological chemistry and chemoinformatics, amongst others. She was an early pioneer in structure validation for protein crystallography, developing the widely used ProCheck software. Together with Christine Orengo, she introduced the CATH classification of protein structure. 

May 23rd, 1949 in (Age 75)