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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Speculating on the Significance of the Sponge Genome

Blogger T. Ryan Gregory at Genomicron observed that the recent sequencing of the Amphimedon queenslandica sponge genome is being promoted in the popular media for its potential insights into life's origins, evolution and medical significance to cancer research. S. Pelech notes that the increasingly commonplace genome sequencing of diverse organisms is really just a continuation and refinement of the Victorian tradition of naming organisms, where the DNA sequence itself is its ultimate name, albeit rather long. Read More...