New from BioMed Central: Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Do you dream of ontologies, taxonomies, terminologies, controlled vocabularies, annotated data, knowledge and service repositories, literature, or reasoning systems and their use in data and knowledge integration, mining, modelling, interpretation and exploitation in and for biomedical research? Then I have a new open access journal for you.
The Journal of Biomedical Semantics has just launched on the BioMed Central open access publishing platform.
The opening editorial indicates that the first manuscripts accepted for publication include contributions from the conference Languages in Biology and Medicine 2009, held last November in South Korea. The editorial also mentions that the two main topic areas of the journal are:
(1) Infrastructure for biomedical semantics. This area focuses on development of semantic resources and the underlying infrastructure, including data and knowledge representation models; provenance, curation, evolution, validation, evaluation and dissemination of semantic resources; semantic integration and mapping between data resources, biomedical Semantic Web, etc.
(2) Exploitation of semantic resources. Typical examples would include using biomedical text and data mining for automated hypothesis generation; exploitation of the Semantic Web and linked data in biomedical research; large-scale automated analyses of biomedical data using ontology-driven reasoning for prediction of novel findings, etc.
Seems like a great editorial team to start. I wonder how many have been involved with an open access publication before this opportunity.
BioMed Central currently publishes 208 peer-reviewed open access journals.
