VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network

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 Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) initiative.

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10/17-19/2011: Oliver attended the 5th Annual Vaccine Renaissance Conference (Vax-Ren-5) at Providence, RI, USA. He presented a talk "Genome-wide vaccine target prediction based on Vaxign reverse vaccinology".
10/2-4/2011: Oliver and Allen presented two posters in the 5th Vaccine and ISV Annual Global Congress in Seattle. Oliver's poster title is "VIOLIN: an integrative vaccine research database and analysis system". Allen's poster title is: "Bioinformatics analysis of protective antigens in manually curated Protegen database".
10/1/2011: Oliver presented a talk "Genome-wide vaccine target prediction using Vaxign reverse vaccinology" in the 1st Computational Vaccinology workshop prior to the 5th Vaccine and ISV Annual Global Congress. Oliver and Allen has also organized a 1.5-hour Vaxign hands-on exercise.
6/20/2011: A comprehensive 26-page review article titled "Emerging Vaccine Informatics" in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2010 special issue on vaccine informatics was published. Oliver is a co-author of this article. This review also introduces VIOLIN and VO.
4/23-25/2011: Oliver presented Vaxign and co-chaired the section "Section 2-2-1: Bioinformatics, Antigen Design, and Vaccine Development" in the BIT 3rd World Vaccine Congress.

Latest Vaccine Publications >>

Mustfa K, Landau I, Chabaud AG, Chavatte JM, Chandenier J, Duong TH, Richard-Lenoble D. Effects of the antimalarial drugs ferroquine and artesunate on Plasmodium yoelii yoelii gametocytegenesis and vectorial transmission Sante (Montrouge, France) 21(3):133-142 2011 [PMID: 22294247]
Dey AK, Burke B, Sun Y, Sirokman K, Nandi A, Hartog K, Lian Y, Geonnotti AR, Montefiori D, Franti M, Martin G, Carfi A, Kessler P, Martin L, Srivastava IK, Barnett SW. Elicitation of Neutralizing Antibodies Directed against CD4-Induced Epitope(s) Using a CD4 Mimetic Cross-Linked to a HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein PloS one 7(1):e30233 2012 [PMID: 22291921]

Vaccine News >>

Vaccinations are Important
Emporia Gazette Feb 4, 2012 18:05
Over 40000 on the mark in Vadodara Marathon today
Indian Express Feb 4, 2012 17:08
Recommended: Hundreds of cruise passengers hit with stomach illness
msnbc.com Feb 4, 2012 15:49

Statistics: The VIOLIN vaccine database contains 2933 vaccines or vaccine candidates for 175 pathogens by manual curation from 1662 peer-reviewed papers. It also contains 24,345 vaccine-related abstracts and 10,317 full text documents.

Please cite this 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].

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