Table of contents : COVER TITLE COPYRIGHT CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTRIBUTORS Section I. INTRODUCTION 1. DEFINING BIOINFORMATICS AND STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS 2. FUNDAMENTALS OF PROTEIN STRUCTURE 3. FUNDAMENTALS OF DNA AND RNA STRUCTURE 4. COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE DETERMINATION 5. MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE DETERMINATION BY NMR SPECTROSCOPY 6. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY 7. MOLECULAR VISUALIZATION Section II. DATA REPRESENTATION AND DATABASES 8. THE PDB FORMAT, mmCIF, AND OTHER DATA FORMATS 9. THE PROTEIN DATA BANK 10. THE NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE 11. OTHER STRUCTURE-BASED DATABASES Section III. COMPARATIVE FEATURES 12. PROTEIN STRUCTURE EVOLUTION AND THE SCOP DATABASE 13. THE CATH DOMAIN STRUCTURE DATABASE 14. STRUCTURAL QUALITY ASSURANCE 15. ALL-ATOM CONTACTS: A NEW APPROACH TO STRUCTURE VALIDATION 16. STRUCTURE COMPARISON AND ALIGNMENT Section IV. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAL ASSIGNMENT 17. SECONDARY STRUCTURE ASSIGNMENT 18. IDENTIFYING STRUCTURAL DOMAINS IN PROTEINS 19. INFERRING PROTEIN FUNCTION FROM STRUCTURE Section V. PROTEIN INTERACTIONS 20. PREDICTION OF PROTEIN–PROTEIN INTERACTIONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION 21. ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS Section VI. PROTEINS AS DRUG TARGETS 22. PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF DOCKING AND LIGAND DESIGN 23. STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS IN DRUG DISCOVERY Section VII. STRUCTURE PREDICTION 24. CASP AND CAFASP EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR FINDINGS 25. HOMOLOGY MODELING 26. FOLD RECOGNITION METHODS 27. AB INITIO METHODS 28. PREDICTION IN 1D: SECONDARY STRUCTURE, MEMBRANE HELICES, AND ACCESSIBILITY Section VIII. THE FUTURE 29. STRUCTURAL GENOMICS COLOR PLATES INDEX