VIOLIN: Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network

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 >>

Elhassan Taha MM, Abdelwahab SI, Moni SS, Farasani A, Aljahdali IA, Oraibi B, Alfaifi HA, Alzahrani AH, Ali Jerah A. Nano-enhanced immunity: A bibliometric analysis of nanoparticles in vaccine adjuvant research Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics 20(1):2427464 2024 [PMID: 39539151]
Klein EY, Impalli I, Poleon S, Denoel P, Cipriano M, Van Boeckel TP, Pecetta S, Bloom DE, Nandi A. Global trends in antibiotic consumption during 2016-2023 and future projections through 2030 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121(49):e2411919121 2024 [PMID: 39556760]

Vaccine News >>

60% of Americans say they probably won’t get an updated COVID-19 vaccine
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Pew survey: 60 percent of Americans say they likely won’t get updated COVID-19 vaccine
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CBS News 2024-11-18 18:54:07
WHO adds LC16m8 mpox vaccine to Emergency Use Listing
World Health Organization 2024-11-19 20:16:21

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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