1 Historical Introduction and Overview 1
2 Collecting and Storing Sequences in the Laborato 19
3 Alignment of Pairs of Sequences 51
4 Multiple Sequence Alignment 139
5 Prediction of RNA Secondary Structure 205
6 Phylogenetic Prediction 237
7 Database Searching for Similar Sequences 281
8 Gene Prediction 337
9 Protein Classification and Structure Prediction 381
10 Genome Analysis 479
Glossary 533
Index 547