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This little book attempts to give a self-contained account of bioinformatics, so that

the newcomer to the field may, whatever his point of departure, gain a rather complete

overview. At the same time it makes no claim to be comprehensive: The field is

already too vast—and let it be remembered that although its recognition as a distinct

discipline (i.e., one after which departments and university chairs are named) is

recent, its roots go back a long time.

Given that many of the newcomers arrive from either biology or informatics, it

was an obvious consideration that for the book to achieve its aim of completeness,

large portions would have to deal with matter already known to those with backgrounds

in either of those two fields; that is, in the particular chapters dealing with

them, the book would provide no information for them. Since such chapters could

hardly be omitted, I have tried to consider such matter in the light of bioinformatics

as a whole, so that even the student ostensibly familiar with it could benefit from a

fresh viewpoint.