The New Avenues in Bioinformatics

Dedication.- Acknowledgements.- Authors List.- Glossary.- Biodata of the editors.- I. Opening.- Introduction. II. Overview & Origin of Information.- General Overview on Bioinformatics; C. Gaudeau, P. Bobola, F. Thevot, Y. Lucas and M. Morin. When and Where did Information First Appear in the Universe? J.G. Roederer. III. Biological Biodata, Evolutionary Data & Chirality.- Biological Databases-Insights and Trends; M. Pruess. Bioinformatic Modeling of Transmembrane-Helical Bundles Based on Evolutionary Data; I.T. Arkin and H. Leonov. Zipf, Zipping and Melting Points: Entropy and DNA; R.D. Lorenz. Biological Chirality; G. Pályi, C. Zucchi, L. Bencze and L. Caglioti. IV. Genes & Genetics.- Splice Site Prediction in Eukaryote Genome Sequences; S. Degroeve, Y. Saeys, B. de Baets, Y. Van de Peer and P. Rouzé. Object-Oriented Modeling in Genetics; H. Quesneville and D. Anxolabéhère. Postgenomic Challenges in Plant Bioinformatics; H. Volpin and H. Koltai. Transcriptome Analysis Through Expressed Sequences; Hanqing Xie and R. Gill-More. V. Glycoinformatics & Protein Data.- Challenges in Glycoinformatics 2003; O. Markman. The Building Block Approach to Protein Structure Prediction; R. Unger. Protein Fold-Recognition and Experimental Structure Determination; L. Rychlewski, J.M. Bujnicki, D. Fischer. Protein Clustering and Classification; O. Sasson and M. Linial. VI. Education & Legal Aspects.- Training at the Bioinformatics Unit of Tel-Aviv University; R. Kreisberg-Zakarin. Patenting of Inventions in the Field of Bioinformatics; M.P.W. Einerhand and J. Van Melle. VII. Additional Links.- Associating COMT with Schizophrenia; B. Yakir. Index