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 >>

Merdrignac L, Laniece Delaunay C, Verdasca N, Vega-Piris L, O'Donnell J, Sève N, Trobajo-Sanmartín C, Buda S, Hooiveld M, Rodrigues AP, Túri G, Latorre-Margalef N, Mlinarić I, Lazar M, Maurel M, Castrillejo D, Bennett C, Rameix-Welti MA, Martínez-Baz I, Dürrwald R, Meijer A, Melo A, Oroszi B, Hagey TS, Kurečić Filipović S, Dijkstra F, Gomez V, Bacci S, Kaczmarek M, Kissling E. Effectiveness of XBB.1.5 Vaccines Against Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Older Adults During the JN.1 Lineage-Predominant Period, European VEBIS Primary Care Multicentre Study, 20 November 2023-1 March 2024 Influenza and other respiratory viruses 18(11):e70009 2024 [PMID: 39523781]
Shen XL, Jiang YH, Li SJ, Xie XY, Cheng Y, Wu L, Shen J, Chen W, Liu JR. Clinical features and predictive nomogram for fatigue sequelae in non-severe patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Shanghai, China Brain, behavior, & immunity - health 42:100889 2024 [PMID: 39498382]

Vaccine News >>

Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. group’s attempt to protect anti-Covid-vaccine doctors from investigations
NBC News 2024-11-20 21:20:10
Opinion | What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
The New York Times 2024-11-20 10:03:27
60% of Americans say they probably won’t get an updated COVID-19 vaccine
Pew Research Center 2024-11-19 14:56:18
The stunning success of vaccines in America, in one chart
Vox.com 2024-11-19 17:30:00
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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