1. Preface / Acknowledgements

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. The skeletal function of non‐genic nuclear DNA: new evidence from ancient cell chimaeras

   • T. Cavalier‐Smith
   • M.J. Beaton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 13

3. DNA repeats in the human genome

   • Paolo Catasti
   • Xian Chen
   • Goutam Gupta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 36

4. Left-handed Z-DNA: structure and function

   • Alan Herbert
   • Alexander Rich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 47

5. Superhelical DNA studied by solution scattering and computer models

   • Jörg Langowski
   • Markus Hammermann
   • Katalin Tóth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 55

6. Micro‐mechanical measurement of the torsional modulus of DNA

   • T.R. Strick
   • D. Bensimon
   • V. Croquette

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 62

7. Sequence‐dependent modelling of local DNA bending phenomena: curvature prediction and vibrational analysis

   • Kristian Vlahoviček
   • Mircea Gh. Munteanu
   • Sándor Pongor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 73

8. Modelling DNA stretching for physics and biology

   • Richard Lavery
   • Anne Lebrun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 84

9. Single‐chain 434 repressors with altered DNA‐binding specificities

   • A. Simoncsits
   • M.‐L. Tjörnhammar
   • S. Pongor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 92

10. Fast combinatorial cartography by FISH on combed genomic DNA

    • David Bensimon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 94

11. RNA folding and catalysis

    • David M.J. Lilley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 102

12. Histone–DNA contacts in structure/function relationships of nucleosomes as revealed by crosslinking

    • Sergei I. Usachenko
    • E. Morton Bradbury

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 115

13. The role of histone H1 in chromatin condensation and transcriptional repression

    • Memmo Buttinelli
    • Gianna Panetta
    • Andrew Travers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 124

14. Chromatin control of HIV‐1 gene expression

    • Giuseppe Marzio
    • Mauro Giacca

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 130

15. Mechanisms of separation of the complementary strands of DNA during replication

    • A.I. Alexandrov
    • N.R. Cozzarelli
    • A. V. Vologodskii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 140

16. Exploring structure space

    • Thomas C. Terwilliger
    • Joel Berendzen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 147

17. The protein data bank

    • J.L. Sussman
    • E.E. Abola
    • J. Prilusky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 158

18. Functional genomics and enzyme evolution

    • M.Y. Galperin
    • E.V. Koonin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 170

19. The beamlines of ELETTRA and their application to structural biology

    • F. Zanini
    • A. Lausi
    • A. Savoia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 180

20. Participants List

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 185