We would like to welcome you to Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS), a new open-access, 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 dissemination of achievements that have generated or used semantics resources to tackle challenges in biology and medicine, for example in genetics, medical treatments, development of therapeutics, translational medicine, food production and others.