The Department is mainly concerned with the information support of the research work done in the A.N.Belozersky Institute, above all, with the goal-oriented scientific programs. The work involves a comprehen-sive approach with the use of the present day forms and methods of information servicing, including reviews of original scientific peri-odicals, current documentation press proofs, reference journals, databases. Besides, the staff of the Department carries out scien-tometrical investigations of the dataflow in modern science.

The main task of the Department's Computer Group (Dr. V.K.Nikolaev and co-workers) is to provide the GeneBee service for worldwide scientists working in the field of molecular biology and medicine: the Inter-net/e-mail access to sequence and 3D-struc-ture databases accompanied by sequence-structure-analysis (http://www.genebee.msu.su). The group is actively engaged to developing of new bio-computing procedures and distributed data-base management. Also the group's staff is responsible for technical support of Institute's Internet domain, WWW and E-mail servers, local network facilities and MEDLINE local service - the database of abstracts from medi-cal and biological journals. Computer group provides education in main biocomputing packages.

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