Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to biological databases -- Pairwise sequence alignment -- Database similarity searching -- Multiple sequence alignment -- Prof iles and hidden Markov models -- Protein motifs and domain prediction - - Gene prediction -- Promoter and regulatory element prediction -- Phyl ogenetics basics -- Phylogenetic tree construction methods and programs -- Protein structure basics -- Protein structure visualization, compar ision, and classification -- Protein secondary structure prediction -- Protein tertiary structure prediction -- RNA structure prediction -- Ge nome mapping, assembly, and comparison -- Functional genomics -- Proteo mics.