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From DNA-inspired physics to physics-inspired biology

This special issue was inspired by a conference 'From DNA-Inspired Physics to Physics-Inspired Biology' held on 1–5 June 2009 at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste-Miramare, Italy. More than 100 physicists and biologists attended the meeting and the programme consisted of 60 invited presentations and posters (further information can be found on its website, http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?ida=a08164), as well as in the first, preamble paper in this issue. The issue itself, with its seven original, refereed articles can in no way represent what really happened at this exciting meeting, because many of the original contributions have already been published or submitted elsewhere. However, all articles in this special issue are related to the basic theme of the meeting, and it, therefore, seemed expedient to go ahead with this project because the theme itself is highly relevant for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. The Guest Editors wish to thank all contributors to this issue for their patience and dedicated response to the referee comments, as well as the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter team for their continued support of this project. We also wish to acknowledge the sponsorship of the conference by the ICTP IAEA-UNESCO and Wellcome Trust.