pt. 1. Bioinformatics databases, data mining, and pattern discovery -- pt. 2. Microarray, gene expression analysis, and gene regulatory networks -- pt. 3. Protein classification & structure prediction, and computational structural biology -- pt. 4. Comparative sequence, genome analysis, genome assembly, and genome scale computational methods -- pt. 5. Drug design, drug screening, and related topics -- pt. 6. Computational methods and diagnostic tools in biomedical -- pt. 7. General topics in bioinformatics