Theoretical molecular biology: prospectives and perspectives.

I briefly discuss some aspects of theoretical molecular biology. Specifically, I include the issues of searches for homologies via string matchings, for patterns of specific nucleotide groupings and of sequence-structure relationship. The various approaches developed in order to achieve this end are described, attempting to convey some of the excitement in this quickly growing field.

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