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.

Research priorities

Faster, Faster!

Blogger Matthew Yglesias at Think Progress wondered if computing power has improved at an "un-optimally rapid pace" that does not permit people sufficient time to develop better ideas for what to do with all this computing power. Blogger Mike the Mad Biologist thinks that instead of slowing down the pace of technological advancement, we need to speed it up to have enough computing power to handle all the data being generate, as the cost of DNA interpretation rather than DNA sequencing is becoming the bottleneck. S. Pelech suggests that the real problem arises when other supporting areas of science and technology become underfunded or relatively neglected relative to the more outwardly sexier endeavors that suck up the lion's share of funding, and this ultimately severely compromises realization of the true value of the public investment in science and engineering. Read More...