Margaret oakley dayhoff biography of william hill

Abstract.

Collecting, comparing, and computing molecular sequences are among the most prevalent practices in contemporary biological research.

This paper explores the historical development of these practices, focusing on the work of Margaret O. Dayhoff, Richard V. Eck, and Robert S. Ledley.

Dayhoff followed her mother, Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, into the field she pioneered in the s, heading the VistA Imaging Project at the Department of.

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This paper explores the historical development of these practices, focusing on the work of Margaret O. Dayhoff, Richard V. Eck, and Robert S. Ledley....

ProfessorMargaretDayhoff

Born11th March, 1925 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) - Died5th February, 1983 (Silver Spring, Maryland, United States)

Dayhoff is known as the founder of bioinformatics.

This she did by pioneering the application of mathematics and computational techniques to the sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids and establishing the first publicly available database for research in the area.

Margaret Dayhoff (Photo credit: Ruth Dayhoff)

Family

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff was the only child of Kenneth W.

Oakley and Ruth P. Clark. Dayhoff's parents moved with her to New York City ten years after she was born in Philadelphia.

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff () was a pioneer in the use of computers in Hill, Page Kajal Chakraborty, P. Vijayagopal and K.K.

In 1948 she married Edward S Dayhoff, whom she had met at high school. He had served in the Navy and became a physicist, being known for his pioneering work on the fine structure of the hydrogen atom. The two of them moved to Maryland in 1952 when Edward went to work for the National Bureau of Standards.

They had