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VIOLIN News
- 3/22-25/2010: Allen Xiang attended the OBI Spring 2010 Workshop at Vancouver, Canada. He presented a use case on vaccine protection investigation using ontology (OBI and VO)-based ANOVA analysis of literature mined data.
- 11/10-12/2009: Dr. 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 (http://www.utmb.edu/scvd/2009Symposium.pdf).
- 9/21/2009: An Notice of Award (NoA) was issued by NIH-NIAID to officially award Oliver He (PI) and his team and collaborators an R01 grant with the title: "Ontology-based Information Network to Support Vaccine Research" (Grant Number: R01AI081062). This is a four-year grant with an aim to develop VO and apply it for ontology-based literature mining and analysis of vaccine-induced protective immune networks.
- 7/24-26/2009: Oliver and two lab members (Allen and Sira) 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 (VO) development and application. One poster is introduction of VO, the other is on using VO for literature mining. The software demo is about OntoFox, which a side project derived from the VO development. OntoFox is used for VO development. More details can be seen in the I CBO proceedings.
- 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 discussed with the OBI development team on how to improving VO with the help from OBI and how to update OBI using vaccine-related terms and term relationships. 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.
- 12/07-09/2008: Dr. Oliver He presented an oral presentation in the 2nd Vaccine Congress organized by the International Society for Vaccines (ISV) and the journal Vaccine. His presentation title is: "Vaxign: a web-based vaccine target design program for reverse vaccinology". In his talk, Oliver focused on introducing the first web-based vaccine design system based on the reverse vaccinology concept originally pioneered by Dr. Rino Rappuoli. Oliver received very positive feedback and encouragements from the vaccine community, including Dr. Rappuoli, the founder of this novel approach for vaccine development. After Dr. He's talk, many groups contacted him for instructions and possible collaborations.
- 09/16-17/2008: Oliver He attended the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) 2008 workshop. In the workshop Oliver presented a talk on the progress of the Vaccine Ontology.
- Aug 14, 2008: Dr. Oliver He gave a speaker presentation in the Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) conference "Novel Vaccines: Bridging Research, Development & Production". His presentation title is "An Ontology-based Information Network to Support Vaccine Research".
- July 19, 2008: We presented the VIOLIN and Vaccine Ontology project in ISMB2008 and here is a PDF version.
- April 12-13, 2008: Both Dr. Oliver He and Zuoshuang (Allen) Xiang attended the training course by Dr. Barry Smith: "An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology" in Buffalo, NY, USA. Dr. Smith introduced ontology with special reference to applications in biomedical research, including Vaccine Ontology.
- March 19, 2008: Dr. Oliver He was awarded to give a speaker presentation in August 2008 in the Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) conference "Novel Vaccines: Bridging Research, Development & Production", which is part of the Immunotherapeutics& Vaccine Summit--ImVacS. His presentation title is "An Ontology-based Information Network to Support Vaccine Research".
- Jan 10, 2008: VIOLIN Wiki was created. The collaborative effort of Vaccine Ontology development was described in the Wiki site.
- Nov 19, 2007: The VIOLIN manuscript was published in the Nucleic Acid Research Database issue as an Epub version (PMID: 18025042).
- Mar 23, 2007: VIOLIN website was online and had its first show.
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