This from a Bio-IT World report on Tim Berners-Lee's talk at the fourth Bio-IT World Conference + Expo in Boston.

Life scientists ... could find the Semantic Web a useful tool, and in so doing, “provide leadership to lots of other fields” in implementing this next-generation Web technology, Berners-Lee said. “At the moment, I see a huge amount of energy from people in life sciences, getting excited by the Semantic Web and what it can do to solve the big-idea problems.”