Synopsis

Interactions are an important aspect of life. They occur at various levels including ecosystem, organismal, cellular, and molecular. Understanding these interactions is important to describe the processes that produce life and study the beneficial and harmful effects to the environment and organisms.

Advances in molecular techniques have enabled the study of these interactions. Among them, next generation sequencing (NGS) has been shown to capture these interactions with increasing resolution and at higher throughput than other techniques. NGS has been applied to characterize the genetic makeup and epigenetic marks of living organisms, their responses to biotic and abiotic changes, and the impact of gene perturbation on the biomolecular network and cellular functions, among others. In this webinar, we would like to highlight the different NGS techniques applied to characterise the interactions that have direct impact on human survival and well-being.