For the average biologist, hands-on literature mining currently means a
keyword search in PubMed. However, methods for extracting biomedical facts from
the scientific literature have improved considerably, and the associated tools
will probably soon be used in many laboratories to automatically annotate and
analyse the growing number of system-wide experimental data sets."
Extract from Nature Review Genetics : Literature mining for the biologist: from information retrieval to biological discovery by Peer Bork et al. 2006
Nature might not quite be in the Open
Publishing business like PLoS, but they are an important player nevertheless. I
hope the OTMI gets picked up by other publications. It would be nice to have a
publication data standard and as one of the top two scientific journals, Nature
has the clout to make this happen. Being able to mine journals and search for
information is invaluable (open or otherwise), and using standard formats like
OPML is an excellent idea.