CALL FOR PAPERS:
SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS
UNIFYING CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR DATABASES
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2004
The unification of clinical and molecular databases poses a complex and
urgent challenge. The Journal of Biomedical Informatics will devote a
special issue to papers on the state-of-the-art in research and education
related to this timely topic. The goal of this special issue is to help
develop a body of literature spanning the traditional clinical informatics
and bioinformatics research arenas and to share experiences with different
approaches to educating students to work in industry and academics in this
important area. The guest editors for this issue will be the AMIA Genomics
Working Group Leadership (Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, Mia K. Markey, John Smith).
The special issue will be a step toward achieving the vision of the Genomics
Working Group: to foster the integration of molecular and clinical
information and knowledge to improve health care.
Submitted articles should focus on opportunities and challenges in
biomedical informatics, arising from the storage, retrieval, analysis, and
dissemination of molecular information in a clinical setting. In addition to
original research we are interested in publishing one or more methodology
review papers. Examples of topics of interest
* Connecting molecular information currently collected in research studies
(e.g., microarray data) with information currently located in patient health
records
* Developing the electronic medical record of the future, in which molecular
information will be fully integrated
* Linking clinical trial and drug discovery information with
clinical/molecular databases
* Creating representations of multi-level knowledge: molecule -> pathway ->
cell -> organ -> patient
Instructions to authors are available at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin. Manuscripts must be submitted
electronically via e-mail care of Donna Knight dknight at path.uab.edu by
midnight CDT October 15th, 2004. Please note they should *NOT* be submitted
directly to Elsevier. There will be a two- stage review process. The
Special Issue Editors based on the recommendations of the Special Issue
external reviewers will recommend for publication a subset of the submitted
papers and forward these to the JBI Editor-in-Chief who will make a final
decision regarding approval for publication.
