Journal of Biomedical Semantics addresses issues of semantic enrichment and semantic processing in the biomedical domain. The scope of the journal covers two main areas:
Infrastructure for biomedical semantics: focusing on semantic resources and repositories, meta-data management and resource description, knowledge representation and semantic frameworks, the Biomedical Semantic Web, and semantic interoperability.
Semantic mining, annotation, and analysis: focusing on approaches and applications of semantic resources; and tools for investigation, reasoning, prediction, and discoveries in biomedicine.
Editors-in-Chief
- Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute
- Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester
Articles
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Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2:9Brucellosis Ontology
The first reported bacterial infectious disease ontology, that provides a brucellosis knowledge-base and supports brucellosis data integration and automated reasoning.
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Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2:7Life Science Identifiers facilitate data integration
The challenge of managing the variability of species names can be addressed with globally unique Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) to map species names to abstract concepts, which should assist in data integration and interoperability in biomedicine.
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Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 5):S9Social networking could anticipate spread of disease
Twitter updates could be used to detect emerging disease outbreaks according to this study, which found a correlation between 'self-protective behavior' in Tweets and WHO/NREVSS data for A(H1N1) during the 2009-2010 influenza season.
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Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2:4Towards interoperable bioinformatics Web services
The challenges discussed during the second DBCLS BioHackathon, from data providers, middleware providers, interface designers and end-users perspective.
Author profiles
Ulf Leser
"With the ever increasing amount and heterogeneity of data that forms the ground for modern molecular biology, issues concerning the meaning of different data sets are more and more important. Therefore, it is very timely to have a journal that specifically focuses on this topic. I think that Journal of Biomedical Semantics has the potential to become the premier place to publish results in this area."
Mark A. Musen
Mark A. Musen is Director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, where he is Professor of Medicine and Computer Science.
"Journal of Biomedical Semantics provides a unique opportunity for scientific exploration at the intersection of semantic systems and biomedicine. The complexities of health, healthcare, and the life sciences often demand computational approaches that make knowledge about the domain and about problem-solving strategies explicit and declarative. Indeed, because computational solutions in biomedicine so often require detailed semantic modeling for their success, important advances in semantic systems seem to spring naturally from the pragmatics of work in this area."
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Latest supplements
Volume 2 Suppl 5 (6 October 2011)
Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM)
Research
Hinxton, UK. 25-26 October 2010
Volume 2 Suppl 4 (9 August 2011)
Proceedings of Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences (OBML 2010)
Proceedings
Mannheim, Germany. 9-10 September 2010
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