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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Test the Waters

The Vancouver Sun reported that researchers at British Columbia's public health laboratories are developing a metagenomics-based test to detect contaminated water through the presence of pathogens' DNA. S. Pelech offers a number of reasons why he thinks that the GenomeBC- and GenomeCanada-funded project to create a metagenomics-based test for detection of bacterial contaminants in community drinking water seems rather ill-conceived. He further questions the decision of the Government of Canada to provide up to $40 million to GenomeCanada and up to $22.5 million to the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) for new multi-million dollar proposals for projects that use genomics to advance personalized health care delivery. Read More...