The Semantic Web is (quote) "a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers". It will "unleash a revolution of new possibilities" using a magical "new" artificially intelligent technology called ontology. So says a much-cited article in Scientific American published back in May 2001. Most people who have read this article, fall into two camps: "believers" and "non-believers". Let me tell you a short story about a religious war between these two groups...
Those people at Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) are hiring which might be of interest to job-seeking nodalpointers. The positions are based in sunny Berkeley, California. Even if you're not a job seeker, its interesting to see what this group are up to and what skills they are after. More information at www.berkeleybop.org
Many computer scientists and software engineers are not familiar with basic biology or bioinformatics. Many biologists and bioinformaticians are not familiar with basic computer science or software engineering. This article points to some resources that can help with the former, and asks, what can be done about the latter?
