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.

Gene Sequencing platforms

The 'Arbimagical' Goal of the $1,000 Genome

Blogger Keith Robison at Omics! Omics! wants to know which gene sequencing platform, from contending companies like ABI, Complete Genomics, GNUBio, Illumina, InoTorret and Life Technologies, will win the race to the 30X, $1,000 genome. S. Pelech wonders how much it is really going to cost to have a person's genome sequenced and get the DNA sequence analyzed to yield personal information of practical value, and who is going to pay for it? Read More...