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
-
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2012, 3:3Biomedical text mining enhanced by lemmatization tool
Morphological analysis of biomedical literature is more effective when performed by a new open source lemmatization tool, BioLemmatizer, which also improves the accuracy of practical information extraction tasks, and outperforms other similar pre-existing software.
-
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2012, 3:2Identifying medical experts using newspaper articles
An algorithm designed to recognize experts mentioned in news articles and social media allows medical researchers to identify opinion leaders in the field, potentially helping to implement new findings.
-
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2012, 3:1Ontological analysis of ICF proposes better classifications
An ontology-based exploration of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) proposes more accurate classifications of components within this tool, which could lead to the development of a more efficient model.
- View more articles
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."
Journal of Biomedical Semantics on Twitter
Twitter updates
- http://t.co/At6o2a92 The papers from the Bioontology SIG 2011 are now available from JBMS. Enjoy ! 4:09 PM Apr 24th, 2012
- http://t.co/ATkiiQIq Translational Bioinformatics Conference, Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 14-17, 2012, + slot for Semantic Biology/Medicine 6:04 PM Apr 18th, 2012
- http://t.co/ZAQTegQV Federated Conf. on Computer Science & Information Systems, Wroclaw, Poland, 9 - 12 Sep 2012, large, some biomedical 1:57 PM Apr 18th, 2012
Latest supplements
Volume 3 Suppl 1 (24 April 2012)
Proceedings of the Bio-Ontologies Special Interest Group 2011
Proceedings
Vienna, Austria. 15-16 July 2011
Email updates
Receive periodic news and updates relating to this journal.