Table of Contents

1. Minimal conflict phylogenetic estimation in a nutshell. Georg Fuellen, Uni Muenster; 2. Gene annotation, Andrea Hansen, Dieter Maier, Biomax Informatics AG; 3. Bioinformatics of gene expression analysis, Martin Eisenacher, IFG Muenster; 4. An Introduction to EMBOSS - the free born son of GCG. Richard Grant, MRC London; 5. Gene family bioinformatics of Annexin A7. Reg O. Morgan, Uni Oviedo, Spain; 6. Desktop sequence analysis tools. Bob Gross, Dartmouth College, NH/Textco BioSoftware; 7. Repeat mining: basic tools for detection and analysis. Jerzy Jurka, Genetic Information Res. Inst., Mountain View, CA, 8. Promoter Analysis - the Matinspector Utility. Kerstin Cartharius (Quandt), Genomatix Software GmbH, 9. Methods for search of gene regulatory elements binding sites - Evgeny Cheremushkin, BioRainbow Group; 10. Web servers for the prediction of curvature as well as other DNA characteristics from sequence. Sandor Pongor, ICGEB Trieste, 11. SimGene: Pathogen Identification System - Arun Apte, Premier BioSoft