Final CFP: Special Issue on Journal of Biomedcial Informatics on Semantic BioMed Mashup

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@.... 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.