chapter 1 Global Aspects of Antibiotic Resistance / chapter 2 Genomics of Bacterial Pathogens / chapter 3 Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Antimicrobial Drug Discovery / chapter 4 The Pathway Tools Software and Its Role in Antimicrobial Drug Discovery / chapter 5 Genomic Strategies in Antibacterial Drug Discovery / chapter 6 Genomics-Based Approaches to Novel Antimicrobial Target Discovery / chapter 7 Pathogenesis Genes as Novel Targets / chapter 8 Application of Genomics to the Discovery of New Drugs Against Tuberculosis / chapter 9 Phenotype MicroArrays: Their Use in Antibiotic Discovery / chapter 10 Microbial Proteomics: New Approaches for Therapeutic Vaccines and Drug Discovery / chapter 11 Surrogate Ligand-Based Assay Systems for Discovery of Antibacterial Agents for Genomic Targets / chapter 12 Expression Profiling Uses in Antibacterial Chemotherapy Development / chapter 13 Using Fungal Genomes for the Discovery, Development, and Clinical Application of Novel and Current Antifungal Therapeutics / chapter 14 Genomics in Novel Natural Products Generation.