This book examines the rapidly evolving microsystem technology that promises to unravel a wide range of applications in biology, gene therapy, molecular medicine, and forensics. These applications will have crucial bearing on future work in the diagnosis of disease and combinatorial chemistry. In addition, the work covers application strategies, theoretical aspects, protocols, and patents.

Biomolecular studies are the trial of Man to understand how Nature manages information at the molecular level. The understanding of molecular informa tion handling in nature is essential for the molecular optimization in chem istry, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology and therefore - as an ex ample - for the development of specifically acting drugs. The famous recent method of technical information management is digital electronics. Over the past few years, evidence has arisen that computerized and molecular information managements have many similar and overlapping aspects. For example,...