The most pressing tasks in bioinformatics involve the analysis of sequence information. Computational Biology is the name given to this process, and it involves the following: •　 Finding the genes in the DNA sequences of various 　 organisms •　 Developing methods to predict the structure and/or function 　 of newly discovered proteins and structural RNA sequences. •　 Clustering protein sequences into families of related 　 sequences and the development of protein models. •　 Aligning similar proteins and generating phylogenetic trees 　 to examine evolutionary relationships.