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Vaccine Ontology News
- Dec 9, 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 introduced the Vaccine Ontology to the attendees and received many positive feedback, encouragements, and possible collaborations.
- Nov 25, 2008: Dr. Oliver He updated the Vaccine Ontology, which includes more terms and updated relationships. More term definitions have also been made. The VO is downloadable in the VO Download page and viewable in the VO Browser.
- Sept 25, 2008: An expended Vaccine Ontology Development Team is established.
- Sept 23, 2008: Based on the feedback and suggestions from experts, particularly Alan Ruttenberg, Bjoern Peters, Richard Scheuermann, Barry Smith, Alexander Diehl, and many others (Thanks!), during the IDO 2008 workshop, Oliver updated the Vaccine Ontology a lot. Now it contains 1241 terms. Beside the BFO and Ration Ontology (RO) terms, the VO contains 874 vaccine-specific terms. The term relationships and general structure design have improved a lot. It also contains a large number of bacterial and viral vaccines, including those licensed for human use in the USA.
- 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 18, 2008: The Vaccine Ontology version now contains 617 terms and is published in the VO web page.
- Aug 14, 2008: Dr. Oliver He gave a speaker presentation 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".
- July 10, 2008: The Vaccine Ontology web site has been moved from VIOLIN Wiki to a new site: http://www.violinet.org/vaccineontology/. The VO browsing tool VOBrowser is also launched.
- May 12, 2008: A lot of new terms have been added to Vaccine Ontology by Oliver He. It now contains 460 terms. The focuses are vaccine-induced immune responses and vaccine phenotypes.
- July 19, 2008: We presented the VIOLIN and Vaccine Ontology project in ISMB2008 and here is a PDF version.
- July 18, 2008: Oliver attended the ISMB 2008 tutorial "How to Make Useful Ontologies for Biomedicine", presented by Drs. Nigam Shah (Stanford University) and Barry Smith.
- April 12-13, 2008: Both Dr. Oliver He and Zuoshuang (Allen) Xiang in Dr. He's lab 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.
- Jan 12, 2008: The Vaccine Ontology version created by Drs. Oliver He (University of Michigan), Lindsay Cowell (Duke University), and Barry Smith (University at Baffulo) contained 60 vaccine specific terms.
- Jan 10, 2008: VIOLIN Wiki was created. The collaborative effort of Vaccine Ontology development was described in the Wiki site.
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