Talks selected and updated from six annual European conferences run by IBC Technical Services discuss such techniques as databases of molecular structure; energy calculation from molecular, quantum, and statistical mechanics; the newer theoretical methods of distance geometry and artificial intelligence, and the means of displaying the results with molecular graphics. The treatment of applications starts with small molecules, with special attention to pharmaceuticals, and progresses to larger molecules, nucleic acids, and proteins (which receive the widest coverage). Includes some 30 examples of color computer displays. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR