VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network

A NIH-funded Postdoc Postion in Vaccine Informatics is Immediately Available:

An NIH-funded postdoctoral research fellow position is immediately available in the area of vaccine bioinformatics for the next four years. The specific aims of this project are to develop the collaborative, community-based Vaccine Ontology (VO, http://www.violinet.org/vaccineontology/), to develop a VO-based natural language process (NLP) program, and to apply them to study vaccine-induced immune networks. More detail is HERE.

Community Efforts

Vaccine Ontology: A community-based effort to develop the Vaccine Ontology (VO) for vaccine data standardization and automated reasoning. VO is being developed by collaboration with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) initiative.

VIOLIN News >>

11/10-12/2009: Oliver He and Allen Xiang attended the “UTMB Sealy Center for Vaccine Development Symposium” in Galveston, Texas. Dr. He presented a talk in how to use VIOLIN and VO to analyze Brucella vaccines.
7/24-26/2009: Oliver and two lab members attended the 1st International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) conference in Buffalo, NY. Two posters and one software demo were presented, all related to Vaccine Ontology development and application.
5/17-21/2009: Oliver attended the 109th ASM General Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. He presented a poster titled "Development of a Community-based Vaccine Ontology".

Latest Vaccine Publications >>

Glynn JR, Murray J, Bester A, Nelson G, Shearer S, Sonnenberg P. High Rates of Recurrence in HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Patients with Tuberculosis The Journal of infectious diseases 201(5):704-711 2010 [PMID: 20121434]
Bukreyev AA, Dinapoli JM, Yang L, Murphy BR, Collins PL. Mucosal parainfluenza virus-vectored vaccine against Ebola virus replicates in the respiratory tract of vector-immune monkeys and is immunogenic Virology 2010 [PMID: 20129638]

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Statistics: The VIOLIN vaccine database contains 453 vaccines or vaccine candidates for 73 pathogens by manual curation from 728 peer-reviewed papers. It also contains 24,345 vaccine-related abstracts and 10,317 full text documents.

Publication: Zuoshuang Xiang, Thomas Todd, Kim P. Ku, Bethany L. Kovacic, Charles B. Larson, Fang Chen, Andrew P. Hodges, Yuying Tian, Elizabeth A. Olenzek, Boyang Zhao, Lesley A. Colby, Howard G. Rush, Janet R. Gilsdorf, George W. Jourdian, Yongqun He. VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D923-8. [NAR] [PubMed] [PDF].