AdaptNET, network of research on adaptation genomics
Understanding how diversity of species is created and kept, and discovering which genomic mechanisms enable adaptation processes of living beings are some essential unknowns which are not solved in Evolutionary Biology yet. At the present moment, the new techniques of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) allow touching on these evolutionary questions at a scale that was unthinkable, but these technologies present a challenge for science and its fast evolution, the difficult adaptation –in management, analysis, and interpretation of a big volume of data.
Creating synergies between research groups, joining work methodologies and promoting the transfer of the know-how of teams specialized in adaptation genomics in Spain are the objectives of AdaptNET, the Thematic Network on Adaptation Genomics funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and coordinated at a state level by Professor Julio Rozas, from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and the Institute for Research on Biodiversity (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona.