Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Access to sequence data and literature information -- Pairwise seque nce alignment -- Basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) -- Advanced database searching -- Multiple sequence alignment -- Molecular phylogen y and evolution -- Bioinformatic approaches to ribonucleic acid (RNA) - - Gene expression : microarray data analysis -- Protein analysis and pr oteomics -- Protein structure -- Functional genomics -- Completed genom es -- Completed genomes : viruses -- Completed genomes : bacteria and a rchaea -- The eukaryotic chromosome -- Eukaryotic genomes : fungi -- Eu karyotic genomes : from parasites to primates -- Human genome -- Human disease.