[Taxacom] BMC Bioinformatics Special Issue on Biodiversity Informatics

[Neil Sarkar]

**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****
Full call for papers available at--
http://www.uvm.edu/~insarkar/bmc/

Contributions are requested for consideration as part of an edited  
topical journal issue in BioMedCentral (BMC) Bioinformatics, one of  
the leading journals in bioinformatics (ISI Impact Factor: 3.49).  
Sponsorship from the Encyclopedia of Life and Consortium for the  
Barcode of Life projects will completely defray publication costs for  
accepted manuscripts in this open access journal.

This topical issue will consider manuscripts along the full spectrum  
of biodiversity informatics topics, such as:

     * Data Analysis Techniques for DNA Barcode Data
     * Scanning, Digitizing, and Markup of Biodiversity Literature
     * Linking Molecular and Phenotypic Information Across Biological  
Resources
     * Ontology Development for Biodiversity Knowledge
     * Development of Species Information Schemas
     * Semantic Annotation and Indexing of Biodiversity Data
     * Taxonomically Intelligent Applications to Manage and Navigate  
Biological Data
     * Determination of Biodiversity Information Needs
     * Secondary Uses of Biodiversity Data (e.g., Biomedical or  
climate studies)
     * Linking Biodiversity Information Across Resources, Including  
EOL and BOL

Review articles, with significant technical details, will also be  
considered on any of the topics listed.

* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS *
For details, see:
http://www.uvm.edu/~insarkar/bmc/bmc_submit.html

* IMPORTANT DATES *
Intent to Submit Due: March 11, 2009
Manuscript Submissions Due: April 15, 2009

* QUESTIONS *
Send all queries to bmc_special_issue at eol.org

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