Table of Contents

The Biological Foundations of Bioinformatics.- Biological databases.- Sequence Comparisons and Sequence-Based Database Searches.- The decoding of eukaryotic genomes.- Protein Structures and Structure-Based Rational Drug Design.- The Functional Analysis of Genomes.- Comparative genome analyses.

About the Author

Paul M. Selzer works as a researcher and scientific manager at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Germany. He is also a visiting professor at the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry of the University of Tubingen, Germany and an honorary professor at the department of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Richard J. Marhoefer is responsible for computational chemistry and computational biology at MSD Animal Health, Germany.

Oliver Koch is an independent group leader for medicinal chemistry at the technical University in Dortmund, Germany.