CONTENTS:- Java programming; Networking concepts; Introducing internet to biologist; Bioinformatics: A prophet of plenty; Databases: Some background information; DNA chip: Database of gene expression; Pathway databases: An introduction; Finding a sequence record for a gene; Sequence alignment protein engineering: Orchestrating future Biosciences; Using blast for similarity searching aspects of advanced protein engineering; An encyclopaedia of bioinformatics web resource: Part-I; An encyclopaedia of bioinformatics web resource: Part-II; Electronic informatio resources and bibliographic mangement; Tracing the development ofvarious important molecular visualization techniques.