The purpose of this book is to offer the high-Tc community a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review on bulk processing with the hope that the book would serve in part as an updated review for expert scientists and in part as a reference/text book on processing for young scientists/graduate students and those who wish to keep track of advances and technological trends in HTSC.Readers in the superconductor science/technology/education areas will find this book prepared by the world's leading experts informative and useful.Contents:Synthesis and Crystal Chemistry of High-Tc Oxide Superconductor (R J Cava)Growth of Single Crystals of Various High-Tc Superconductors (L F Schneemeyer)Ceramic Processing and Wire Fabrication of High-Tc Superconductors (D T Shaw and S Jin)Processing for High Jc Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Wires (K Sato)Melt Processing and Properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O (K Salama et al.)Melt Process, Flux Pinning and Levitation (M Murakami)Processing of the Thallium Oxide Superconductor (R D Blaugher)Irradiation Processing for Flux Pinning Enhancement in High-Tc Superconductors (L Civale)Preparation of Low-Resistivity Contacts for High-Tc Superconductors (J W Ekin)Synthesis and Properties of Fullerene Superconductors (D W Murphy et al.)Present Status and Future Prospects in Bulk Processing of High-Tc Superconductors (S Jin & C W Chu)Readership: Professionals and graduate students in materials science, physics and chemistry.Key Features:Contains a systematic and comprehensive survey of biocomputing not existing in the current literatureProvides a broad overview of bioinformatics with a number of novel bioinformatics applications that illustrate some of the principles of biocomputingA unique source of information on the biological/physiological background on the biological “computing” processes that are performed in living systems, including higher cognitive processesShows how some of these computing examples in biology have found their way into useful computing applications such as genetic algorithms