Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics: an overview / W. Kalow -- Quantitative TaqMan real-time PCR: diagnostic and scientific applications / J�org D�otsch, Ellen Schoof, and Wolfgang Rascher -- Hybridization probes for quantitative PCR / Elaine Lyon -- An overview of genotyping and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) / Ivo Glynne Gut -- High-throughput mutation screening / Paal Skytt Andersen and Lars Allan Larsen -- Determination of nucleic acid sequence by pyrosequencing / Elaine Elahi and Mostafa Ronaghi -- An introduction to DNA chips / Magdalena Gabig-Ciminska and Andrzej Ciminski -- Overview of microarrays in genomic analysis / Janette K. Burgess -- Overview of differential gene expression by high-throughput analysis / Kin-Ying To --.

Aptamers: powerful molecular tools for therapeutics and diagnostics / Eva Baldrich i Rubio, Monica Campos i Homs, and Ciara K. O'Sullivan -- Chip-based proteomics technology / Mikhail Soloviev, Richard Barry, and Jon Terrett -- Infectomics overview: holistic and integrative studies of infectious diseases / Sheng-He Huang and Ambrose Jong -- The drug discovery process / Roberto Solari -- Structure-based drug discovery / Chen-Chen Kan, Kevin Hambly, and Derek A. Debe -- Protein interaction-targeted drug discovery / Gary Hudes, Sanjay Menon, and Erica A. Golemis -- Overview of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) / David A. Winkler.

All Ages.