Editing Sequence database (section)

=== 1950 ===
The need for sequence databases originated in 1950 when Fredrick Sanger reported the primary structure of insulin. He won his second Nobel Prize for creating methods for sequencing nucleic acids, and his comparative approach is what sparked other protein biochemists to begin collecting amino acid sequences. Thus marking the beginning of molecular databases.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Hagen |first=Joel B. |title=The Origin and Early Reception of Sequence Databases |date=2011 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-987-1_4 |work=Data Mining in Proteomics: From Standards to Applications |pages=61–77 |editor-last=Hamacher |editor-first=Michael |series=Methods in Molecular Biology |volume=696 |place=Totowa, NJ |publisher=Humana Press |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-60761-987-1_4 |pmid=21063941 |isbn=978-1-60761-987-1 |access-date=2022-05-05 |editor2-last=Eisenacher |editor2-first=Martin |editor3-last=Stephan |editor3-first=Christian|url-access=subscription }}</ref>