preface introduction 1 biology in the computer age 2 computational approzcbes to biological questions the bioinformatics workstation 3 setting up your worksstation 4 files and directories in unix 5 working on a unix system tools for bioinformatics 6 biological researcb on the web 7 sequence analysis,pairwise alignment,and database searching 8 multiple sequence alignments,trees,and profiles 9 visualizing protein structures and computing structural properties 10 predicting protein structure and function from sequence 11 tools for genomics and proteomics databases and visualization 12 automating data analysis with perl 13 building biological databases 14 visualization and data mining bibliography index