 Welcome to MOOC course on Interactomics, Basics and Applications. This course will first give you the glimpse of the field of proteomics, different milestones which have led to the field of proteomics and where intractomic field fits into the field of proteomics. Do you want to learn high throughput applications from technologies like microarrays, next generation sequencing, mass spectrometry and label-free biosensors? If your answer is yes, so this is the right course for you. This course is a modified version of a workshop which we conducted at IIT Bombay. Distinguished foreign scientist Dr. Joshua Labair and several academic and industry speakers gave lectures and hands-on sessions. The other approach and the one that I'll talk about today is what I call a function-based approach. And the goal here is to look at the individual proteins and ask what do they do? What's their role? How do they behave? Who do they interact with? You know, are they altered in disease? And obviously these two approaches are complementary, right? They support each other. Through this course we aim to provide an interface between distinguished scientists involved in advanced intractomics research, industrial partners, faculties and students. This course would feature an intensive lecture series followed by some demonstrations designed to provide the much needed training required to explore the endless possibilities in intractomics research using genomics and proteomics that can be useful for researchers and students at any stage. This course will have weekly assignments and live interactive sessions. It has been really great experience in interacting with MOOC participants directly and provide them some live demonstrations of latest technologies from our laboratory at IIT Bombay. I'm sure you're now excited to learn these rapidly evolving technology platforms which have immense application in life sciences and translational biology. So I'll encourage you to join this course and learn many new technologies which are currently being used in the field of intractomics, genomics and proteomics. Learn the basic principles of field of intractomics and how you can also use it for many applications which are applicable in different domain of life sciences. I look forward to make it very interactive course and wish you all the best for taking this course and joining this for the next 12 weeks with us. Thank you.