[MOBY-l] Publication opportunity for Mobyers, especially TIGR workshop participants

[Mark Wilkinson]

This sounds *perfect* for some of the interfaces that many of you have  
been developing.  Especially the folks who have been attending the TIGR  
workshops! Deadline is only 11 days away...



Special Issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics on
Semantic BioMed Mashup



Guest Editors:

Kei-Hoi Cheung, Huajun Chen, Yimin Wang, Susie Stephens, Joanne Luciano,
Vipul Kashyap

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2007



Biomedical researchers need to be able to access all relevant data in order
to make well-informed decisions. To reach this objective, data about genes,
proteins, pathways, chemical compounds, diseases, and clinical trials must
be effectively integrated and available to the scientist. Yet, integration
of disparate biomedical data continues to be a challenge. Difficulties with
data integration occur because many biomedical research disciplines require
the integration of data sets that have been produced by using different
experimental/clinical protocols using heterogeneous data formats, and that
reflect different levels of abstraction. Further challenges include
inconsistent use of terminology and identifiers, rapidly increasing data
volumes, and the growing diversity in data types and formats.



The goal of this special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics
(JBI) is to provide a forum for advanced research on methods for biomedical
data mashup using Semantic Web technologies, as the quantity and diversity
of biomedical datasets are growing rapidly on the Web. In accordance with
the editorial policies of the Journal, we are soliciting full-length  
article
submissions that explain and demonstrate the use of novel Semantic Web
methodologies to integrate heterogeneous biomedical data (see a summary of
JBI's editorial guidelines at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin). In addition to
original research papers, we are soliciting one or more methodological
review papers in the issue and we welcome submissions in this category.



Possible topics for this special include:



·  Integration of health care and/or life science data using semantic web
technologies.

·  Semantics of health care and/or life science data

·  Semantic web applications for health care and/or life science data

·  Semantic web services

·  Ontology-based data integration

·  RDF/OWL data querying languages

·  Experience with novel methods using triple stores

Any questions regarding the special issue may be sent to:
kei.cheung at yale.edu. Inquiries about suitability should include a short
paragraph describing the primary objectives of the manuscript. We would
welcome advance notice of your intention to submit a paper.

Submissions: Manuscripts should be submitted to the JBI authors' gateway
(http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/) no later than July 31, 2007. Please be sure
that your manuscript follows the JBI instructions for authors available on
that Web site. You will be offered an opportunity to specify the special
issue as the preferred venue when you submit your manuscript to the  
gateway.
Submissions will undergo standard peer review, and opportunities for
revision will be provided as appropriate. Papers judged inappropriate for
the special issue may be considered for publication in a regular issue of
the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

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University of British Columbia
PI Bioinformatics
iCAPTURE Centre, St. Paul's Hospital
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