Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biochemical and molecular biological methods in life sciences studies -- Basic principles -- Cell culture techniques -- Recombinant DNA techniques and molecular cloning -- Preparative protein biochemistry -- Electrophoretic techniques -- Immunochemical techniques -- Flow cytometry -- Radioisotope techniques -- Principles of clinical biochemistry -- Microscopy -- Centrifugation and ultracentrifugation -- Spectroscopic techniques -- Basic techniques probing molecular structure and interactions -- Mass spectrometric techniques -- Fundamentals of bioinformatics -- Fundamentals of chemoinformatics -- The python programming language -- Data analysis -- Fundamentals of genome sequencing and annotation -- Fundamentals of proteomics -- Fundamentals of metabolomics -- Enzymes and receptors -- Drug discovery and development.