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Journal of Biomedical Semantics addresses issues of semantic enrichment and semantic processing in the biomedical domain. 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, the Biomedical Semantic Web, and semantic interoperability.
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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Editors-in-Chief
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, National University of Ireland, Ireland 
Editorial Board
Susanna-Assunta Sansone, University of Oxford, UK 
Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada 
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA 
Philip E Bourne, University of California, USA 
Anita Burgun-Parenthoine, Université de Rennes, France 
Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal
Carol Friedman, University of Columbia, USA 
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK 
Udo Hahn, University of Jena, Germany 
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, USA 
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK 
Jung-Jae Kim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Patrick Lambrix, University of Linköping, Sweden 
Hilmar Lapp, The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, USA 
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University, Germany 
Suzanne Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA 
Mark Musen, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 
Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics Group, USA 
Jong Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea 
Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, USA 
Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland 
Michael Schroeder, Technical University Dresden, Germany 
Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria 
Pavel Shvaiko, Università degli Studi di Trento, Portugal 
Amnon Shabo, IBM Research Laboratory, Israel 
Barry Smith, University at Buffalo, USA 
Larisa Soldatova, Brunel University, UK 
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK 
Toshihisa Takagi University of Tokyo, Japan 
Alfonso Valencia, National Center for Biotechnology, Spain 
Mark Wilkinson, University of British Columbia, Canada 
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore