# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janet-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:01.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janet-thornton"
name: "Janet Thornton"
slug: "janet-thornton"
description: "Dame Janet Maureen Thornton is a senior scientist and director emeritus at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She is one of the world's leading researchers in structural bioinformatics, using computational methods to understand protein structure and function. She served as director of the EBI from October 2001 to June 2015, and played a key role in ELIXIR."
tagline: "British bioinformatician and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plos_thornton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1949-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           9.00792
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/thornton"
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    title: "Janet Thornton"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janet Thornton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump