Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sequence databases / Rolf Apweiler -- Mapping databases / Peter S. White and Tara C. Matise -- Information retrieval from biological databases / Andreas D. Baxevanis -- Genomic databases / Tyra G. Wolfsberg -- Predictive methods using DNA sequences / Enrique Blanco and Roderic Guigo?? -- Predictive methods using RNA sequences / David Mathews and Michael Zucker -- Sequence polymorphisms / James C. Mullikin and Stephen T. Sherry -- Predictive methods using protein sequences / Yanay Ofran and Burkhard Rost -- Protein structure prediction and analysis / David Wishart -- Intermolecular interactions and biological pathways / Gary D. Bader and Anton J. Enright -- Assessing pairwise sequence similarity: BLAST and FASTA / Andreas D. Baxevanis -- Creation and analysis of protein multiple sequence alignments / Geoffrey J. Barton -- Sequence assembly and finishing methods / Nancy F. Hansen, Pamela Jacques Thomas and Gerard G. Bouffard -- Phylogenetic analysis / Fiona S.L. Brinkman -- Computational approaches in comparative genomics / Andreas D. Baxevanis -- Using DNA microarrays to assay gene expression / John Quackenbush -- Proteomics and protein identification / Mark R. Holmes, Kevin R. Ramkissoon and Morgan C. Giddings -- Using perl to facilitate biological analysis / Lincoln D. Stein.