Preface. Personal Interludes. 1. Genomes from Phage to Human. 2. The Evolutionary Concept in Genetics and Genomics. 3. Information Sources for Genomics. 4. Principles and Methods of Sequence Analysis. 5. Genome Annotation and Analysis. 6. Comparative Genomic and New Evolutionary Biology. 7. Evolution of Central Metabolic The Playground of Non-orthologous Gene Displacement. 8. Genomes and the Protein Universe. 9. Peering Through the Crystal Ball. Appendices. References. Index.