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Call for Papers (A Thematic Series in Chinese Medicine)
Semantic Web for Chinese Medicine: Harmonizing Data and Information of
Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
Submission deadline: 31 January, 2010
Guest editors: Kei-Hoi Cheung (1) and Huajun Chen (2)
(1) Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, Connecticut, USA. (kei.che...@yale.edu)
(2) College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
(huajun...@zju.edu.cn)
Scope of the thematic series
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As the use of Chinese Medicine (CM) is growing, the question of how to
relate CM and western medicine becomes increasingly important. Semantic
relationships are to be discovered, established, explored, and reasoned
with the help of computers, as large amounts and diversities of data and
information about CM and western medicine have been collected digitally.
While digital data are available, harmonizing such data is a challenging
informatics problem due to differences in data formats, data models, and
ontologies. The cultural and language differences present an additional
challenge. This thematic series focuses on the use of Semantic Web
technologies to help harmonize CM data and biomedical data. These
technologies include RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, triplestores, linked data,
ontologies, semantic web services, semantic rule engines, reasoners, and
so on.
Example topics
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The following are a few examples of potential topics for your
contribution to this thematic series:
1. Semantic mashup/integration of existing resources/services to
create new resources/services allowing CM data and other types of data
including molecular, clinical, and pharmaceutical data to be combined
for integrative or translational research.
2. Creation of data warehouses or data federation systems.
3. Construction and use of ontologies in the CM domain with links to
other biomedical domains.
4. Biomedical network integration and analysis.
5. Approaches to facilitating cross-cultural and/or multilingual
collaboration (e.g., cross-cultural knowledge integration and
information retrieval).
6. Semantic merge between databases and literature (e.g., ontology
mining from text literature).
You are invited to submit your latest research on either topic for
publication in a special issue; review and commentary articles are also
welcome. All submitted manuscripts will be immediately entered into a
peer review process. The submission deadline is 31 January, 2010 while
some peer-reviewed and accepted papers can be published online earlier.
About the journal
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Chinese Medicine (http://www.cmjournal.org/), the official journal of
the International Society for Chinese Medicine, aims to provide a forum
for the dissemination of high quality research. All articles in the
journal are open access and fully peer-reviewed.
Submit your research to Chinese Medicine and take advantage of an
efficient online submission process, a high quality peer-review service,
and high visibility for your article. There are no color charges and no
limits on the number of figures or text.
The published version of your article will be immediately placed in
PubMed Central and other freely accessible full-text repositories. This
complies with the open access policies of many funders including those
of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NIH, and Wellcome Trust.
Online submission
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Please submit your manuscript via our online submission system
(http://www.cmjournal.org/manuscript/). For more information about the
journal, contact the Editorial Office (cmjour...@gmail.com) or visit our
instructions for authors (http://www.cmjournal.org/info/instructions/).
