Аннотация:Briefings in Bioinformatics aims to provide working biologists with an awareness and understanding of the computational approaches available for research and discovery.The Abstracts section of the journal consists of summaries of bioinformatics manuscripts published in the previous quarter.Inclusion of an article in this section indicates that the editors consider it to be among the most interesting and/or useful contributions to the field for the quarter covered.These reports are briefly distilled for readers, with an emphasis placed on their potential utility.Publications in the areas of phenotype ontologies, molecular evolution and gene networks from the first quarter of 2005 (