Table of Contents

Opening.- Overview & Origin of Information.- General Overview on Bioinformatics.- When and Where did Information First Appear in the Universe?.- Biological Biodata, Evolutionary Data & Chirality.- Biological Databases—Insights and Trends.- Bioinformatic Modeling of Transmembrane ?-Helical Bundles Based on Evolutionary Data.- Zipf, Zipping and Melting Points: Entropy and DNA.- Biological Chirality.- Genes & Genetics.- Splice Site Prediction in Eukaryote Genome Sequences.- Object-Oriented Modeling in Genetics.- Postgenomic Challenges in Plant Bioinformatics.- Transcriptome Analysis Through Expressed Sequences.- Glycoinformatics & Protein Data.- Challenges in Glycoinformatics 2003.- The Building Block Approach to Protein Structure Prediction.- Protein Fold-Recognition and Experimental Structure Determination.- Protein Clustering and Classification.- Education & Legal Aspects.- Training at the Bioinformatics Unit of Tel-Aviv University.- Patenting of Inventions in the Field of Bioinformatics.- Additional Links.- Associating COMT with Schizophrenia.