Preface

At the beginning of the 1990s biomolecular electronics asserted itself as a powerful novel approach to combine the most advanced technology humankind has ever developed with the most sophisticated type of matter known in the Universe, biological matter. Expressions such as self-assembly, specific recognition, natural evolution, and so on, suddenly became very popular and widely used (and sometimes, abused), including by people lacking a rigorous biological education.
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