Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Application of bioinformatics in agriculture/D. Velmurugan. 2. Statistical data mining-concepts, tools and techniques for bioinformatics/Ravi R. Saxena, Ritu R. Saxena, Akash Solanki and M.L. Lakhera.  3. Prediction of 3D: Structure of proteins using artificial neural networks/K. Meena. 4. A genomic approach to study the insect mitochondrial evolution by non coding LSU and SSU rRNA/S. Gifta Lorraine, Christy Jancy Joy P., Arul Samraj D. and Priyakumari Joyce C. 5. Analysis of microarray gene expression data/M. Balakrishnan, R.C. Srivastava and M. Ramachandran. 6. A novel sequence encoding method for searching rareness among consensus DNA sequences/K. Meena, K. Menaka, T.V. Sundar and K. R. Subramanian. 7. Statistical methods for genomic sequence and microarray analysis/A.K. Roy and S.R. Martha. 8. Significance of insect genomics in agro ecosystems/R.W. Alexander Jesudasan. 9. Bioinformatics tools in fish molecular modeling/Grinson George, K.Sarma, S. Dam Roy and Mukunda Goswamy. 10. Structural bioinformatics goals and challenges/Mayank Pokhriyal and M. Balakrishnan. 11. Database for animal genetic resources of A &N Islands/M. Balakrishnan, S. Jeyakumar, R.C. Srivastava, Mayank Pokhriyal and Soma Mondal. 12. A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma/K. Balaji, M. Rajadurai, G. Vidhya, A. Krithika, E. Hudson, Vidya Murali, M. Ramya, Anusha Bhaskar and V. Stanley. 13. In-silico determination of potential drug target for curing meningococcal disease- bioinformatics study on penicillin- binding proteins/Vijay Tripathi, Dwijendra Gupta and Navita Srivastava. 14. Text mining: potential applications in bioinformatics/M. Balakrishnan, R.C. Srivastava, S.K. Zamir Ahmed and Subhash Chand. 15. Diversity and antibacterial activity of coral associated actinomycetes/P. Nithyanand, S. Manju and S. Karutha Pandian. 16. Decision tree and its application in bioinformatics/Rajni Jain and Amarendra Kumar Mishra. 17. Database for algae resources in Andaman and Nicobar Islands/M. Balakrishnan. 18. Bioinformatics of natural antibiotics/S. Rajarajan, M. Yogambal, K. Sangeetha. 19. PhytopathoSys v1.0: A phytopathology information system/M. Balakrishnan, R.C. Srivastava, Michael Imanual Jesse and M. Ramachandran. 20. Multiple gene expression profiles of chemically induced Parkinson disease: implication in neuroprotection mechanism offered by Nicotine and Caffeine/Kavita Singh, M.P. Singh and M. Balakrishnan. 21. Development of databases on freshwater aquaculture/A.K. Roy and Nibedita Jena. 22. Proteomics and bioinformatics/A. Subash Chandira Bose, R. Venkateshwaran and M. Balakrishnan. 23. Data mining and its applications in bioinformatics soma/Mondal and M. Balakrishnan. 24. Molecular phylogenic location of the Indian liver fluke, Fasciola (Trematoda: Fasciolidae) based on the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions/P. K. Prasad, V. Tandon, D.K. Biswal, L.M. Goswami and A. Chatterjee.  25. Prediction of amino acid levels in protein sequences using artificial neural networks/K.Meena and M. Manimekalai. 26. Applying new data mining method of rough sets to predict protein structural class/K. Meena and M. Durairaj. 27. Plant systems biology/G. Ramesh Kumar, CP Rajadurai and M. Ramachandran. 28. Bio-efficacy of indigenous bacillus thuringiensis LDC-9 against insect pest and its characterization through In-silico approach/R. Shenbagarathai and A. Mahalakshmi.  29. Molluscan resources and its management measures in Andaman & Nicobar Islands/S.N. Sethi, M. Balakrishnan, S. Chand and B.Varghese.