Margaret Dayhoff, bioinformatics pioneer and creator of protein and nucleic acid databases, was born #OTD in 1925. She also produced the one-letter codes for amino acids that are still used today.
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Compound Interest: A Brief Guide to the Twenty Common Amino Acids
The proteins that make up living organisms are huge molecules, but they’re composed of tinier building blocks, known as amino acids. There are over 500 amino acids found in nature, yet, of th…Compound Interest