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Two of my favourite things and the subject of a 3-article feature in Nature this week, presumably for the festive season. The first of these is a fascinating look at the evolution of ADH genes.

The 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2006 (DILS'06) have just opened their call for papers. Deadline for abstracts is the 2nd March 2006 and the conference this year will be held at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.

Well, its about time, Tim Berners-Lee finally has a blog.

As it stands, the Semantic Web will not achieve widespread adoption, according to Rob McCool of Yahoo! / Stanford in his article Rethinking the Semantic Web, part 1 published in the nov/dec issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Rob outlines several reasons for this, but we have to wait for part 2 to see Yahoo's solution, which will be published in January 2006.

This week's Nature continues the "new Web technology" theme with a look at wikis - specifically a comparison of Wikipedia and Britannica (with an editorial here).

Is it possible to post items to nodalpoint using desktop clients like w.bloggar?

What is nodalpoint's URL for the supported API? (i.e. xmlrpc.php)

Finally, I would have put my post into the 'Using it' subcategory (below 'nodalpoint') since it doesn't fit into neither of 'Administration', 'Policy', 'Look and feel' nor 'Content'.

fernan

The American Association of Artificial Intelligence have a special "Semantic Web" track of technical conference papers at AAAI-06, the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, 16-20 July 2006. Abstracts need to be submitted by the 16th February, see the AAAI: Call for Papers.

The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) is the leading European and one of the primary international conferences in computational biology and bioinformatics. The fifth meeting in this series will be held on September 10-13, 2006 in the resort town of Eilat, Israel. The meeting will be held jointly with the 9th Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium. The Deadline for paper submissions is 15th March 2006.

The W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) have recently published their charter, a list of people introducing themselves on public-semweb-lifesci shows academic and commercial organisations interested in and using semantic web technology in biomedical informatics.

The materials from the Advanced Bio-ontologies tutorial are now available. They include Tutorial materials, exercises and solutions which help users to build bio-ontologies using the Web Ontology Language (OWL).