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Professor Dame Janet Thornton

27-Jun-2012

Instruct would like to congratulate Professor Janet Thornton on her recent honour, becoming Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to bioinformatics.

Professor Thornton has been a valuable proponent of establishing data standardisation across technology boundaries, including those in structural biology and has been a key participant in several projects (e.g. SPINE, SPINE2-COMPLEXES, PiMS) which have helped to shape Instruct’s objectives. Professor Thornton is Coordinator of ELIXIR which, with Instruct, was one of the first 6 Biomedical Science projects to be funded through the ESFRI Roadmap. Instruct maintains strong links with Professor Thornton through ELIXIR, BioMedBridges and EMTRAIN.