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.

Paper figures

Because That Would Make Too Much Sense

Bloggers DrugMonkey and Thomas Mailund have wondered why authors are not able to have more control of where the figures appear in their published manuscripts. S. Pelech points out that the size and placement of the figures in the final journal print format can be tricky, and if authors embedded figures with the text in their submitted manuscripts, there is a high chance that the text of the figures may be too small to discern or the figures may be of too low resolution. Read More...