Part I: Getting Started in Bioinformatics.

Chapter 1: Finding Out What Bioinformatics Can Do for You.

Chapter 2: How Most People Use Bioinformatics.

Part II: A Survival Guide to Bioinformatics.

Chapter 3: Using Nucleotide Sequence Databases.

Chapter 4: Using Protein and Specialized Sequence Databases.

Chapter 5: Working with a Single DNA Sequence.

Chapter 6: Working with a Single Protein Sequence.

Part III: Becoming a Pro in Sequence Analysis.

Chapter 7: Similarity Searches on Sequence Databases.

Chapter 8: Comparing Two Sequences.

Chapter 9: Building a Multiple Sequence Alignment.

Chapter 10: Editing and Publishing Alignments.

Part IV: Becoming a Specialist: Advanced Bioinformatics Techniques.

Chapter 11: Working with Protein 3-D Structures.

Chapter 12: Working with RNA.

Chapter 13: Building Phylogenetic Trees.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 14: The Ten (Okay, Twelve) Commandments for Using Servers.

Chapter 15: Some Useful Bioinformatics Resources.

Index.