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The Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), will soon be publishing their special issue on Semantic Biomedical Mashups (can you fit any more buzzwords into a Call For Papers?!). Ben Good and friends have submitted a paper on their Entity Describer which extends connotea using some Semantic Web goodness. They'd appreciate your comments on their submitted manuscript over at i9606. As Ben says, their pre-publication turns out to be an interesting experiment "figuring out how blogging might fit into the academic publishing landscape". If this interests you, get commenting now!

Ben Good from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver has just been visiting our laboratories here in Manchester. Ben is doing some interesting web experiments in mass collaboration, inspired by the likes of BioMOBY and Connotea. If you have any time to spare, or are just curious, please join in and mass collaborate!

Get your grass skirt on, the proceedings from the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2006 have been recently put online. There are eight papers about semantic webs for life sciences, two of particular interest to anyone who is building and using ontologies in bioinformatics, and didn't make it to Hawaii.