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AQUAPHOTOMICS
NEW SCIENTIFIC PLATFORM FOR MEASUREMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WATER-LIGHT INTERACTION
1. Introduction to Aquaphotomics
Omics disciplines such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and many others have contributed immensely to the comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles underlying basic living functions by studying biomolecules which are the building blocks of any living system. However, in essence, they all have a narrow, “vertical” approach – the very separation into different omics disciplines is based on a separation of the living system into its components. Despite going very deeply into the research of single biomolecules, this approach of studying living systems can be compared to the dissection of an organism in order to study its parts. While, in this way of analysis, signifcant amount of information and better understanding can be reached, the organism under study is effectively dead, dissected and, as such, it no longer represents the system we are actually interested in – it lacks the basic function we are trying to understand - the living process.
Biological systems are complex - in order to understand how they are functioning systemic, integrative approach is needed. The biological molecules which “omics” disciplines study as separate, isolated entities, in living systems work together and their synergy is what provides living processes all their complexity. And all these processes are happening in the medium which is often forgotten and not even recognized as a biomolecule – water 1,2.
Whenever we think about water, the frst associations that come to mind are bottled water, tap water, rarely human body, or any other living organism. However, some living organisms are up to 90% water, and in human body, water is the most abundant chemical element. The important thing here is to recognize that water we are talking about is a system of molecules: water molecules bind to each other or other molecules in different ways, thus creating different water species as very complex, dynamic molecular system with new chemical and physical characteristics. Aquaphotomics - a novel “omics” discipline was introduced with the objective of studying water as such system – a complex dynamic matrix composed of many different water molecular species with various functionalities3. This word “aquaphotomics” is derived from the words aqua—water, photo-light and omics – all about, to denote that the water in this discipline is studied using its interaction with light of all frequencies of electromagnetic spectrum.
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