[MOBY-dev] Fwd: Briefings in Bioinformatics - Decision on BIB-07-0068

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com> writes:

  Mark> Here is the (very rapid!) review from Briefings in Bioinformatics.
  Mark> LOL! Well, the reviewers couldn't differ more in their desires for the
  Mark> manuscript!! It's almost as if we should write TWO manuscipts... one
  Mark> for each audience. Actually, I did suggest this on-list a few weeks
  Mark> ago, but nobody was brave enough to take me up on the suggestion...
  Mark> are there any takers now?

  Mark> Comments are welcome. I'm leaving for Moby meetings/talks in Koln,
  Mark> Wageningen, and Amsterdam tomorrow so I am away for the next 10 days.
  Mark> I should still have time to do some editing if anyone has suggestions.


Entertaining. 


  Mark> Reviewer: 2 Comments to the Author I believe it could be improved with
  Mark> additional discussion and assessment of the differences between its
  Mark> approach and W3C Semantic Web.

  Mark> As the author states, BioMoby developed independently from the W3C
  Mark> semantic web specifications yet is addressing at least in part, some
  Mark> of the same use-cases in bioinformatics. Granted this is more from a
  Mark> service perspective than a knowledge-model perspective. Nonetheless,
  Mark> the rather "independent" evolution of these two approaches,
  Mark> particularly in light of the more productionized current state of
  Mark> BioMoby, suggests a more extensive comparison of the two paths of
  Mark> development.

  Mark> I would like to see such an expanded discussion in the paper - even a
  Mark> few more paragraphs.

  Mark> Editor's Comments to Author: Editor: 1 Comments to the Author: The
  Mark> referees differ somewhat in the balance expected. It is true that
  Mark> Briefings is orientated to Biological users. However, it is also read
  Mark> by Bioinformatics developers. The editor leaves it to the author to
  Mark> decide how to deal with these different emphases.


Well, you could write two papers, but the other approach would be to refer to
any other work which compared biomoby to current semantic web approaches. I'm
not sure that such a paper exists, but you might be able to find one with
google...

Phil