KOGO official remark on the first Korean genome
From kogic.kr
"“The first Korean genome map is by Seoul National University”
On Jul 14, Joon-Mo Yang, President of Korea Genome Organization (KOGO) put an official opinion on which group sequenced and published the first Korean genome sequence.
It was reported in one of the largest newspaper group "Donga"'s "Donga Science".
Subtitled as "The Korean Genome Organization expressed opinion on the origin of genome map"
(In Korean, the term "genome map" is usually used as the full genome sequence)
The following is the translation of the news article:
During the teleconference with The Science, President Yang answered as above to the question about what is the opinion of the genomics society on the first Korean genome. He added that “More complete research results are more important that who was the first one”.
On Jul 8, Genomics Institute, Seoul National University announced in a press release that “The genome sequencing results they completed in Sep 2008 will be published in Nature on Jul 9” and “it is the first Korean genome sequencing”. However, Korea Research Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB) and Gachon University of Medicine and Science published “The first Korean genome sequence and analysis” in Genome Research on May 26. There has been dispute which was the first.
President Yang explained; “If two articles were published in journals of the same level, who is first would be important. However, if the levels of journals are different, it does not really matter”; “If articles were published around the similar period of time, It is customary to give priority to the article which has bigger impact factor and more strict reviewing process”.
The impact factor of “Nature”, where the article from Genomics Institute, Seoul National University was published, is 28.751 (year 2007), while that of “Genome Research”, where the article from Gachon University was published, is 11.224.
President Yang said “if Gachon University team had submitted its paper to Nature, their article might have not been accepted or the publication might have been delayed because of long reviewing process if accepted whereas Genomics Institute, Seoul National University team might have been able to publish their paper faster if they had submitted the paper to other journals than Nature”.
His claim is that if we put two researches on the same line of “Nature”, it is more probable that Seoul National University would have published earlier than Gachon University, and thus Seoul National University’s result must be regarded as the first one.
President Yang said, “ Genome Research is a good jounal, but the publication in Nature that has more thorough reviewing process means that the research result is more precise”.
