Contents

INTRODUCTION
(Paul H. Dear)
1. Database resources for wet-bench scientists (Neil Hall and Lynn Schriml)
2. Navigating sequenced genomes (Melody Clark and Thomas Schlitt)
3. Sequence similarity searches (Jaap Heringa and Walter Pirovano)
4. Gene prediction (Marie-Adele Rajandream)
5. Prediction of non coding transcripts (Alex Bateman and Sam Griffiths-Jones)
6. Finding regulatory elements in DNA sequence (Debraj GuhaThakurta and Gary Stormo)
7. Expressed sequence tags (Arthur Gruber)
8. Protein structure, classification and prediction (Arthur Lesk)
9. Gene ontology (Vineet Sangar)
10. Prediction of protein function (Rodrigo Lopez)
11. Multiple sequence alignment (Burkhard Morgenstern)
12. Inferring phylogenetic relationships from sequence data (Peter Foster)
Appendix
Index