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.

Michael Snyder

The Real-time In-depth-ome

Rebecca Boyle at Popular Science reported that Michael Snyder at Stanford University has been studying his own genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome in an effort to make as detailed a personal 'omics profile over two years, and now the results of this study have been published in Cell. S. Pelech questions that since Dr. Snyder's academic research is primarily funded with public grant funding, is it ethical to have these resources spent in such a manner that he will be the primary beneficiary? Read More...