1. Global aspects of antibiotic resistance -- 2. Genomics of bacterial pathogens -- 3. Bioinformatics, genomics, and antimicrobial drug discovery -- 4. The pathway tools software and its role in antimicrobial drug discovery -- 5. Genomic strategies in antibacterial drug discovery -- 6. Genomics-based approaches to novel antimicrobial target discovery -- 7. Pathogenesis genes as novel targets -- 8. Application of genomics to the discovery of new drugs against tuberculosis -- 9. Phenotype microarrays: Their use in antibiotic discovery -- 10. Microbial proteomics: New approaches for therapeutic vaccines and drug discovery -- 11. Surrogate ligand-based assay systems for discovery of antibacterial agents for genomic targets -- 12. Expression profiling uses in antibacterial chemotherapy development -- 13. Using fungal genomes for the discovery, development, and clinical application of novel and current antifungal therapeutics -- 14. Genomics in novel natural products generation.