As basic research on the genome comes every closer to applications in medicine, being able to use the billions of data entries in the public domain has become more and more imperative. In this collection of papers that integrate into an overall reference, contributors offer up-to-date research on the rapidly maturing science of bioinformatics, biological macromolecules, proteins from sequence to structure to function, biological databases and mining tools, genome analysis, proteome analysis and future trends. The editors include a list of bioinformatics web sites. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)