Preface.
List of Contributors.
1. Annotation and Databases: Status and Prospects (M. Hoebeke, H. Chiapello, J.-F. Gibrat, Ph. Bessieres and J. Garnier).
I: THE DATABANKS.
2. Survey of Sequence Databases: Archival Projects (M. Magrane, M. Garcia-Pastor and R. Apweiler).
3. Survey of Sequence Databases: Derived Databases (M. Pruess, N. Mulder and R. Apweiler).
4. Databanks of Macromolecular Structure (H.J. Bernstein and F.C. Bernstein).
5. Gene Expression Databases (H. Parkinson).
II: THE BASIS OF ANNOTATION.
6. Taxonomy: a Moving Target for Sequence Data (M.I. Krichevsky).
7. Genomics and Proteomics: Design and Sources of Annotation (K. Mayer and G. Mannhaupt).
8. Annotation of Protein Sequences (W.C. Barker and C.H. Wu).
9. Issues in the Annotation of Protein Structures (G.J. Swaminathan, J. Tate, R. Newman, A. Hussain, J. Ionides, K. Henrick and S. Velankar).
10. Classification of Protein Function (A.M. Lesk, H. Parkinson and J.C. Whisstock).
III: DATABASE DESIGN AND INTEGRATION.
11. Information Flow and Data Integration of Databanks (C.H. Wu and W.C. Barker).
12. Models of Database Interconnectivity (G.J.L.Kemp).
13. The European Bioinformatics Institute Macromolecular Structure Relational Database Technology (H. Boutselakis, D. Dimitriopoulos, K. Henrick, J. Ionides, M. John, P.A. Keller, P. McNeil, J. Pineda and A. Suarez-Uruena).
IV: CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS.
14. Looking Around, Looking Ahead (A.M. Lesk).
Index.
