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News: Call for papers for the third ISV Pre-conference Computational Vaccinology Workshop (ICoVax 2013):

The third ISV Pre-conference Computational Vaccinology Workshop (ICoVax 2013) is a satellite workshop to be held on Oct. 26, 2013, prior to the general Vaccine & ISV Annual Global Congress. The meeting will be in Barcelona, Spain. The ICoVax 2013 workshop will include oral presentations of full length papers, poster presentations of accepted abstracts, and software demo. All accepted papers will be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Please see more information on the ICoVax 2013 Call for Papers web page.

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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3/8/2013: The supplement “ICoVaX” was published on BMC Bioinformatics: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/supplements/14/S4 .
2/11-12/2013: Oliver will attend the CTSA Ontology Workshop in Orlando, FL. He will present the Vaccine Ontology (VO) in the workshop.
12/20/2012: A thematic series titled Vaccine and drug ontology in the study of mechanism and effect (VDOSME) was published in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics. The thematic series was co-organized by Oliver. See a related BioMed Central blog for more information. VO-related papers were presented.
10/24/2012: Allen and Oliver's algorithm for predicting eluted protein epitopes was announced by Vladmir Brusic as one of the winners in the 2nd Machine Learning Competition in Immunology 2012.
10/16/2012:Oliver presented an oral presentation in the general Vaccine & ISV Annual Global Congress. His presentation title is: Systematic annotation and analysis of "virmugens" - virulence factors whose mutants can be used as live attenuated vaccines.
10/13/2012: Oliver co-organized the 2nd ISV Pre-conference Computational Vaccinology Workshop (ICoVax 2012), a satellite workshop of the general Vaccine & ISV Annual Global Congress. Oliver also presented an oral presentation. Allen also attended the workshop and presented Vaxign software demo.

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Hsu JL. A brief history of vaccines: smallpox to the present South Dakota medicine : the journal of the South Dakota State Medical Association Spec no:33-37 2013 [PMID: 23444589]
White AD, Sibley L, Dennis MJ, Gooch K, Betts G, Edwards N, Reyes-Sandoval A, Carroll MW, Williams A, Marsh PD, McShane H, Sharpe SA. An evaluation of the safety and immunogenicity of a candidate TB vaccine, MVA85A, delivered by aerosol to the lungs of macaques Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 2013 [PMID: 23446219]

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Statistics: The VIOLIN vaccine database contains 3211 vaccines or vaccine candidates for 198 pathogens by manual curation from 2004 peer-reviewed papers. It also contains 24,345 vaccine-related abstracts and 10,317 full text documents.

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