This special issue includes a number of papers from the ACM Workshop o
n Information Retrieval and Genomics that was held in Bethesda, Maryla
nd, U.S.A. at the Lister Hill Center, National Library of Medicine, 2-
4 May 1994, under the sponsorship of the Association for Computing Mac
hinery (ACM) special interest groups in biology (SIGBIO) and informati
on retrieval (SIGIR), and hosted by the National Library of Medicine.