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Publications

General VIOLIN (Note: please cite this paper if you want to cite the whole VIOLIN system. Thanks!):

Xiang Z, Todd T, Ku KP, Kovacic BL, Larson CB, Chen F, Hodges AP, Tian Y, Olenzek EA, Zhao B, Colby LA, Rush HG, Gilsdorf JR, Jourdian GW, He Y. VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D923-8. [NAR] [PubMed] [PDF].



VIOLIN use case studies:

He Y, Xiang Z. Bioinformatics analysis of Brucella vaccines and vaccine targets using VIOLIN. Immunome Res. 2010 Sep 27;6 Suppl 1:S5. [NAR] [PubMed] [PDF].

 


Vaccine design tool Vaxign:

He Y, Xiang Z, Mobley HLT. Vaxign: the first web-based vaccine design program for reverse vaccinology and an application for vaccine development.J Biomed Biotechnol. 2010;2010:297505. Epub 2010 Jul 4. [PMID:20671958] [Journal Link]

Xiang Z, He Y. 2009. Vaxign: a web-based vaccine target design program for reverse vaccinology. Procedia in Vaccinology. Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 23-29.

McNamara L, He Y, Yang Z. Using epitope predictions to evaluate efficacy and population coverage of the Mtb72f vaccine for tuberculosis. BMC Immunology. 2010 Mar 30;11(1):18. [PMID: 20353587] [Journal Link]



Vaccine Components:

Protegen: Protective Antigens:

Yang B, Sayers S, Xiang Z, He Y. Protegen: a web-based protective antigen database and analysis system. Nucleic Acids Research. 2010. 2010 Oct 19. [Epub ahead of print]. [PMID: 20959289]

He Y, Xiang Z. Bioinformatics analysis of bacterial protective antigens in manually curated Protegen database. Procedia in Vaccinology. 2012. In press.

 

Vaxjo: Vaccine Adjuvants:

Sayers S, Ulysse G, Xiang Z, and He Y. Vaxjo: a web-based vaccine adjuvant database and its application for analysis of vaccine adjuvants and their uses in vaccine development. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. In press.

 


Vaccine Ontology (VO)-associated papers:

VO-based Literature Mining:

Hur J, Xiang Z, Feldman EL, He Y. Ontology-based Brucella vaccine literature indexing and systematic analysis of gene-vaccine association network. BMC Immunology. 12(1):49 2011 Aug 26. PMID: 21871085.

Ozgur A, Xiang Z, Radev D, He Y. Mining of vaccine-associated IFN-γ gene interaction networks using the Vaccine Ontology. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S8. PMID: 21624163.

Ozgur A, Xiang Z, Radev D, He Y. Mining of vaccine-associated IFN-γ gene interaction networks using the Vaccine Ontology. Proceeding of Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences, ISMB, July 9-10, 2010. Boston, MA, USA. Full length paper.

 

Modeling of Vaccine Investigations by Collaborating with OBI:

Brinkman RR, Courtot M, Derom D, Fostel JM, He Y, Lord P, Malone J, Parkinson H, Peters B, Rocca-Serra P, Ruttenberg A, Sansone S, Soldatova LN, Stoeckert Jr. CJ, Turner J, Zheng J, the OBI consortium. Modeling biomedical experimental processes with OBI. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 2010, 1(Suppl 1):S7. [PMID: 20626927]

 

Tool development using VO as use case study:

Xiang Z, Courtot M, Brinkman RR, Ruttenberg A, He Y. OntoFox: web-based support for ontology reuse. BMC Research Notes. 2010, 3:175. [PMID: 20569493]

 

VO-based Annotation and Curation (Note: these three papers have been listed above):

He Y, Xiang Z. Bioinformatics analysis of Brucella vaccines and vaccine targets using VIOLIN. Immunome Res. 2010 Sep 27;6 Suppl 1:S5. [NAR] [PubMed] [PDF].
(Note: use VO to study Brucella vaccines)

Yang B, Sayers S, Xiang Z, He Y. Protegen: a web-based protective antigen database and analysis system. Nucleic Acids Research. 2010. 2010 Oct 19. [Epub ahead of print]. [PMID: 20959289]
(Note: all protective antigens in Protegen are annotated in VO)

Sayers S, Ulysse G, Xiang Z, and He Y. Vaxjo: a web-based vaccine adjuvant database and its application for analysis of vaccine adjuvants and their uses in vaccine development. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. In press.
(Note: all vaccine adjuvants in Vaxjo are annotated in VO)