Fundamental concepts of bioinformatics

Molecular biology and biological chemistry

Data searches and pairwise alignments

Substitution patterns

Distance-based methods of phylogenetics

Character-based methods of phylogenetics

Genomics and gene recognition

Protein and RNA structure prediction

Proteonics

Appendix 1. A gentle introduction to computer programming and data structures

Appendix 2. Enzyme kinetics

Appendix 3. Sample programs in Perl.