Re: ISMB Bio-Ontologies Meeting

Me, too.

On May 2, 2007, at 6:23 AM, jbarkley@nist.gov wrote:

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> hi kei et al,
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> I would also like to contribute to the group paper.
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> thanks,
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> jb
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> Date:  Tue, 01 May 2007 15:39:22 -0400
> From:  Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
> To:  samwald@gmx.at
> Cc:  public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> Subject:  Re: ISMB Bio-Ontologies Meeting
> Quoting Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>:
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>> Hi Matthias et al,
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>> It looks like there is some interest in writing a group paper  
>> describing
>> the demo work that is currently going on. Some people have already
>> proposed a couple of options such as the following:
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>> 1. ISMB BioOnt Workshop whose proceedings will be published in a
>> supplement issue of BMC Bioinformatics (is there a publication cost?)
>> 2. Society for Neuroscience meeting (will it be published in a  
>> journal?)
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>> There are also other otpions. For example, there is a special issue
>> "Semantic BioMed Mashup" of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics
>> (http://www.elsevier.com/framework_products/promis_misc/ 
>> jbi_semantic.pdf).
>> I have also seen community papers published in high-profile journals
>> such as Nature and Science. It depends on the quality of the work,  
>> but
>> it also depends on people's interest, commitment, availability ...
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>> The first HCLS paper (which will be published in BMC Bioinformatics
>> soon) talks about SW visions and use cases in the area of  
>> translational
>> medicine. A new paper paper (if we decide to write one) might  
>> focus on
>> the SW implementation of these visions and use cases. We have more
>> results now ...
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>> Best,
>>
>> -Kei
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>> samwald@gmx.at wrote:
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>>>> It's something that we'd like to see:-)
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>>>> Phil
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>>> How much time would we have left to write such a community paper?  
>>> The
>> original deadline for submissions is May 1 (today).
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>>> If some of us should decide to write such a community paper, I would
>> volunteer to coordinate the collaborative writing via Google Docs.  
>> Many of us
>> already have some practice in using this system, and I guess it  
>> would now
>> work better than the last time.
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>>> -- Matthias Samwald
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>>> .
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