Health care struggles to transfer recent discoveries into high-quality medical care. Therefore, translational science seeks to improve the health of patients and communities by studying and promoting the translation of findings from bench research into clinical care. Similarly, medical education practice may be slow to adopt proven evidence of better learning and assessment. The Academic Emerge...

High-throughput molecular profiling techniques are routinely generating vast amounts of data for translational medicine studies. Secure access controlled systems are needed to manage, store, transfer and distribute these data due to its personally identifiable nature. The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) was created to facilitate access and management to long-term archival of bio-molecular...

We would like to welcome you to Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS), a new openaccess, peer-reviewed inter-disciplinary journal that addresses novel theoretical and practical advances in biomedical semantics research. The main focus of JBMS is the development and integration of semantics resources into the biomedical research practice. The journal therefore aims at providing a forum for diss...