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.

Networks

Eric Schadt's Network

Eric Schadt at Pacific Biosciences argued that the one-gene-at-a-time approach doesn't seem to be working, and greater emphasis should be placed on the examination of many genes and proteins and their interactions in networks. S. Pelech echos many of Eric Shadt's sentiments and takes the opportunity to outline three forms of intelligence: molecular intelligence that operates inside of living cells, cellular intelligence that permits the cells in an organism to communicate with each other and also monitor the external environment, and social intelligence that permits organisms within a group to function together. The same kind of organizing principles are at play at each of these levels despite the vast differences in their scale. Read More...