1. Introduction.- Complex Microbial Systems.- 2. High-Throughout Techniques for Analyzing Complex Bacterial Communities.- Computational Methods.- 3. A Systems Approach to Discovering Signaling and Regulatory Pathways-or how to digest large interaction networks into relevant pieces.- 4. Genome Function-a virus-world view.- Molecular Machines: Multiprotein Complexes.- 5. Intracellular Proteolysis and Proteasomes.- 6. Conformational Switching in Muscle.- Gene Regulatory Networks.- 7. The Intricate Workings of a Bacterial Epigenetic Switch.- 8. Yeast Signal Transduction: Regulation and Interface with Cell Biology.
