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Community Efforts

Vaccine Ontology: A community-based effort to develop the Vaccine Ontology (VO) for vaccine data standardization and automated reasoning.

To support vaccine safety and registry, the Ontology of Vaccine Adverse Events (OVAE) and Vaccination Informed Consent Ontology (VICO) are also developed.

VIOLIN News >>

1/12/2024: Our CanVaxKB cancer vaccine knowledgebase was published in NAR Cancer (PMID: 38204924, PMCID: PMC10776203).
12/1/2023: We published a Vaxign-DL BioRxiv paper introducing our Vaxign-DL deep learning program.
11/11/2023: Oliver He presented VIOLIN vaccine knowledgebase in the Knowledge Representation and Semantics Working Group Pre-Symposium (KRS-WG-2023) at AMIA 2023, New Orleans.
10/20-22/2023: Yuanyi "Penny" Pan and Oliver He attended 2023 OHDSI Symposium, East Brunswick, New Jersey, and presented a poster titled "Harmonization of OMOP vaccine-related vocabularies through the Vaccine Ontology".
08/29/2023: Cui, Junguk, and Oliver co-organized the International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS-2023), associated with the ICBO-ONTOBRAS, Brasilia, Brazil, at 08/28-09/01/2023. Our VIOLIN team also presented many papers/studies in VDOS-2023 and the main ICBO-ONTOBRAS conference.
02/28/2023: Asiyah presented the OHDSI Vaccine Vocabulary WG Objectives and Key Results (OKR) in the OHDSI community call on Feb 28, 2023.

Latest Vaccine Publications >>

. Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 The Lancet. Public health 9(10):e729-e744 2024 [PMID: 39366729]
Lin RT, Liu PK, Chang CW, Cheng KC, Chen KJ, Chang YC. Behcet's disease-related panuveitis following COVID-19 vaccination: A case report World journal of radiology 16(9):460-465 2024 [PMID: 39355389]

Vaccine News >>

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TIME 2024-10-18 16:24:58
Updated COVID-19 vaccine for fall now available at Lincoln pharmacies, clinics
KOLN 2024-10-18 23:08:00
COVID-19 and flu cases are down, making it the perfect time to get vaccinated
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2024-10-18 15:00:00
Why Getting Your 2024 COVID and Flu Shots Before Halloween Is a Good Idea
KQED 2024-10-17 21:00:08

Statistics: The VIOLIN vaccine database contains 4708 vaccines or vaccine candidates for 219 pathogens by manual curation from 4982 peer-reviewed papers. It also contains 24,345 vaccine-related abstracts and 10,317 full text documents.

Please cite this publication for VIOLIN:

He Y, Racz R, Sayers S, Lin Y, Todd T, Hur J, Li X, Patel M, Zhao B, Chung M, Ostrow J, Sylora A, Dungarani P, Ulysse G, Kochhar K, Vidri B, Strait K, Jourdian GW, Xiang Z. Updates on the web-based VIOLIN vaccine database and analysis system. Nucleic Acids Research. 2014. 42 (D1): D1124-D1132. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt1133. First published online: November 19, 2013. [NAR] [PubMed PMID: 24259431] [PDF] [PMCID: PMC3964998]

Or the previous VIOLIN manuscript:

Zuoshuang Xiang, Thomas Todd, Kim P. Ku, Bethany L. Kovacic, Charles B. Larson, Fang Chen, Andrew P. Hodges, Yuying Tian, Elizabeth A. Olenzek, Boyang Zhao, Lesley A. Colby, Howard G. Rush, Janet R. Gilsdorf, George W. Jourdian, Yongqun He. VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D923-8. [NAR] [PubMed PMID: 18025042] [PMCID: PMC2238972] [PDF].

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