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Journal of Biomedical Semantics
http://www.jbiomedsem.com/

Journal of Biomedical Semantics is an open access journal that encompasses all aspects of semantic resources used for data integration, modeling, interpretation and exploitation in biomedical research. Research in biology and biomedicine relies on various types of biomedical data, information and knowledge, represented in databases with experimental and/or curated data, ontologies, literature, taxonomies, etc. Semantics is essential for accessing, integrating and analyzing such data. The ability to explicitly extract, assign and manage semantic representations is crucial for making computational approaches in the biomedical domain productive for a large user community. Journal of Biomedical Semantics aims to address issues of semantic enrichment and semantic processing in the biomedical domain, and comprises practical and theoretical advances in biomedical semantics research with implications for data analysis. In recent years, the availability and use of electronic resources representing biomedical knowledge has greatly increased, covering ontologies, taxonomies, literature, databases, and bioinformatics services. These electronic resources contribute to advances in the biomedical domain and require interoperability between them through various semantic descriptors. In addition, the availability and integration of semantic resources is a key part in facilitating semantic web approaches for life sciences leading into reasoning and other advanced ways to analyse biomedical data. 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, Biomedical Semantic Web, semantic interoperability, and particularly, life-long management of semantic resources.

* Semantic mining, annotation and analysis, focusing on approaches and applications of semantic resources and tools for investigation, reasoning, prediction and discoveries in biomedicine.

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posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:33 AM
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