Writing for researchers, physicians and students, Augen, (formerly of IBM, now head of an IT consulting firm) describes the startling advancements in high-performance computing in biomedical research, particularly molecular medicine. He describes the emergence of the new field of bioinformatics, and its traditional tools and algorithms, the structure of genes, computational techniques for sequence analysis, the proteome and the protein translation process, protein structure prediction, medical informatics and information-based medicine, and new themes in bioinformatics such as systems biology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)