High performance computing for computational biology. Session introduction / T. Ferrin, B.A. Foster and R. Hughey -- ViewFeature: integrated feature analysis and visualization / D.R. Banatao [und weitere] -- Analyzing sensory systems with the information distortion function / A.G. Dimitrov and J.P. Miller -- Sequence analysis with the Kestrel SIMD parallel processor / L. Grate [und weitere] -- A new algorithm for the alignment of multiple protein structures using Monte Carlo optimization / C. Guda [und weitere] -- Gene verification and discovery by walking tree method / T. Hsu and P. Cull -- Predicting gene function from gene expressions and ontologies / T.R. Hvidsten [und weitere] -- A multithreaded parallel implementation of a dynamic programming algorithm for sequence comparison / W.S. Martins [und weitere] -- Molecular fingerprinting on the SIMD parallel processor Kestrel / E. Rice and R. Hughey -- Percolation clustering: a novel approach to the clustering of gene expression patterns in dictyostelium development / R. Sasik [und weitere] -- Quality control in manufacturing oligo arrays: a combinatorial design approach / R. Sengupta and M. Tompa -- Using metacomputing tools to facilitate large scale analyses of biological databases / A. Waugh [und weitere] -- Natural language processing and information extraction in biology. Session introduction / J.-I. Tsujii and L. Wong -- Including biological literature improves homology search / J.T. Chang, S. Raychaudhuri and R.B. Altman -- TEXTQUEST: document clustering of MEDLINE abstracts for concept discovery in molecular biology / I. Iliopoulos, A.J. Enright and C.A. Ouzounis -- Bidirectional incremental parsing for automatic pathway identification with combinatory categorial grammar / J.C. Park, H.S. Kim and J.J. Kim -- Event extraction from biomedical papers using a full parser / A. Yakushiji [und weitere] -- Genome, pathway, and interaction bioinformatics. Session introduction / P. Karp, E. Neumann and P. Romero -- Us