نبذه عن الكتاب: I was requested by the former controller of examinations at the University of Madras, India, A. Sivamurthy, to prepare the curriculum and syllabus for a B.Tech. degree in bioinformatics at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, in 2001. I was requested by letter to prepare a project report on a course program for an M.Tech. degree in bioinformatics by Dr. B. Srinivasan, Vice Chancellor at Sri. Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Viswa Mahavidyalaya University, Kancheepuram, India, in 2002. The Vice Chancellor at SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India, R. Sethuraman, chartered me with the task of writing a book entitled Lecture Notes in Computational Molecular Biology, to be used for instruction in the newly formed M.Tech. and B.Tech. bioinformatics programs in 2003. Since I wrote Lecture Notes in Computational Molecular Biology, a number of interesting developments in the field of bioinformatics has come about. The Human Genome Project has been completed ahead of time. The biologic databases double in size every 10 months, and the computing speed of microprocessors doubles in speed every 18 months. So a database search that cost $2 today would, two years from now, quadruple in cost to $8 on account of the explosive growth of databases and would be cut back in half to $4 on account of the increase in computing power. There is scope for the development of data search and data storage algorithms and methods. It can be viewed as a marriage between information technology and computational biology. Bioinformatics is emerging as a distinct discipline of its own. Textbooks need to be neither mathematically intimidating nor biologically intensive and laborious. Over 560 end-of-chapter exercises are provided in this book. Appendices with Internet hotlinks to public-domain databases and PERL code commands are given. This book can be used as a textbook for core subjects in a bioinformatics undergraduate program and as an elective for chemical engineering and biotechnology undergraduate and graduate programs.