VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network

Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Vaccine Informatics":

A Special Issue on Vaccine Informatics is now open for manuscript submissions in the Journal of BioMedicine and Biotechnology. "We invite authors to present original research as well as review articles that will focus on the development and applications of cutting edge vaccine informatics technologies to advance vaccine R&D and improve immunization programs ". The manuscript due day is October 1, 2009.

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 >>

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".
2/2-6/2009: Oliver attended the OBI 2009 Vancouver Workshop. Oliver presented a talk to discuss the relationships between VO and OBI. Oliver has also joined the OBI Consortium and represents the vaccine community in the OBI development.
12/9/2008: Oliver He presented an oral presentation in the 2nd Vaccine Congress in Boston. His presentation title was "Vaxign: a web-based vaccine target design program for reverse vaccinology".

Latest Vaccine Publications >>

Teboh-Ewungkem MI, Podder CN, Gumel AB. Mathematical Study of the Role of Gametocytes and an Imperfect Vaccine on Malaria Transmission Dynamics Bulletin of mathematical biology 2009 [PMID: 19568725]
Jacobs BL, Jeffrey OL, Karen VK, Karen LD, Stacy DW, Susan AH, Shukmei W, Trung H, Carole RB. Vaccinia Virus Vaccines: Past, Present and Future Antiviral research 2009 [PMID: 19563829]

Vaccine News >>

Swine flu ”unstoppable”, says WHO chief
Fresh News Dec 31, 1969 19:00
South Korea to Amass Swine Flu Vaccine for 13 Million
Bloomberg Dec 31, 1969 19:00
World health officials gather in Mexico for global A(H1N1) summit
Cnet Asia Dec 31, 1969 19:00

Statistics: The VIOLIN vaccine database contains 351 vaccines or vaccine candidates for 73 pathogens by manual curation from 691 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].