Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Databases

Too Much to Read

Blogger Pedro Beltrao at Public Rambling noted that 848,865 papers were added to PubMed in 2009, and he says that there needs to be improvements in how researchers are able to find the publications that are particular important to them. S. Pelech proposes that we need to completely re-think and re-engineer how we disseminate the data from scientific research so that it is more efficiently found and utilized in databases that are directly queryable. Read More...