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.

Tim Hunt

Systems Biology Meets 'Real' Biology

Tim Hunt encouraged practicing systems biologists to spend plenty of time talking to real biologists as it's difficult to map interactions among systems "when you don't even know what the players are." S. Pelech comments that Dr. Hunt's major criticisms of systems biology really arise from the infancy of the field, and the enthusiasm of those in this area to make sense of the limited data that is currently available about proteins. Genomics research has provided the identification of the protein players and data about where and when they are produced. Proteomics reseach is revealing how these proteins are modified and their interactions with each other. Read More...