VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network

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].

He Y. Analyses of Brucella pathogenesis, host immunity, and vaccine targets using systems biology and bioinformatics. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2012. 2:2. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00002.

Vaccine design tool Vaxign:

Xiang Z, He Y. Genome-wide prediction of vaccine targets for human herpes simplex viruses using Vaxign reverse vaccinology. BMC Bioinformatics. 2013, 14(Suppl 4):S2 (8 March 2013). PMID: 23514126; PMCID: PMC3599071.

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. Volume 6. Pages 3 – 9.

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. 2012;2012:831486. Epub 2012 Mar 13. PMID: 22505817.

Virmugen: Virulence factors whose mutants are live attenuated vaccines:

Racz R, Chung M, Xiang Z, and He Y. Systematic annotation and analysis of “virmugens” - virulence factors whose mutants can be used as live attenuated vaccines. Vaccine. Available online December 6, 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.11.066.

Vaccine Ontology (VO)-associated papers:

The following document has been frequently cited for the Vaccine Ontology:

He Y, Cowell L, Diehl AD, Mobley HL, Peters B, Ruttenberg A, Scheuermann RH, Brinkman RR, Courtot M, Mungall C, The 1st International Conference on Biomedical Ontology(ICBO 2009) Nature Precedings. Buffalo, NY, USA; 2009. VO: Vaccine Ontology.http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3553/version/1 . (NOTE: Please cite this document for VO. We are currently preparing a journal article fully describing VO)

Lin Y, He Y. Ontology representation and analysis of vaccine formulation and administration and their effects on vaccine immune responses. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. In press.

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. (Note: This paper may also be used for citing VO)

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.

Hur J, Özgür A, Xiang Z, He Y. Identification of fever and vaccine-associated gene interaction networks using ontology-based literature mining. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. In press.

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)

Vaccine adverse events:

Sarntivijai S, Xiang Z, Shedden KA, Markel H, Omenn GS, Athey BD, and He Y. Ontology-based combinatorial comparative analysis of adverse events associated with killed and live influenza vaccines. PLoS ONE. 2012, 7(11): e49941. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049941.

Reviews:

He Y, Xiang Z. Databases and in silico tools for vaccine design. Methods Mol Biol. 2013;993:115-27. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-342-8_8. PMID: 23568467. [Note: this is Chapter 8 in book: In Silico Models for Drug Discovery, Editor: Sandhya Kortagere.]

He Y, Cao Z, De Groot AS, Brusic V, Schönbach C, Petrovsky N. Computational vaccinology and the ICoVax 2012 workshop. BMC Bioinformatics. 2013, 14(Suppl 4):I1 (8 March 2013). PMID: 23514034; PMCID: PMC3599086.