 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925–2017) was an influential American biochemist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology. She is best known for her foundational work in developing methods for comparing protein sequences, as well as for creating the first comprehensive protein sequence database. Dayhoff played a crucial role in advancing computational techniques that helped analyze biological data, which made significant contributions to our understanding of molecular biology and genetics.