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.

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The Human Genome Bubble

The Human Genome Project generated high expectations, which spurred the US government to invest in the effort, which some argue catalyzed long-term investments by the private sector. S. Pelech argues that industry actually led the way to whole genome sequencing, and that since then insufficient followup work on the proteins encoded by genes has handicapped the potential of the Human Genome Project to yield better diagnostic tools and therapeutics. Read More...