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 >>

Aggrey S, Egeru A, Kalule JB, Lukwa AT, Mutai N, Hartnack S. Household satisfaction with health services and response strategies to malaria in mountain communities of Uganda Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2024 [PMID: 39492781]
Mahtab S, Madewell ZJ, Baillie V, Dangor Z, Lala SG, Assefa N, Berihun M, Madrid L, Regassa LD, Scott JAG, Ameh S, Bangura J, Ita O, Kaluma E, Ogbuanu IU, Gaume B, Kotloff KL, Sow SO, Tapia MD, Ajanovic S, Garrine M, Mandomando I, Varo R, Xerinda EG, Alam M, El Arifeen S, Gurley ES, Hossain MZ, Rahman A, Akelo V, Igunza KA, Onyango C, Onyango D, Verani JR, Mutevedzi P, Whitney CG, Blau DM, Madhi SA, Bassat Q. Etiologies and Comorbidities of Meningitis Deaths in Children Under 5 Years in High-Mortality Settings: Insights from the CHAMPS Network in the Post-Pneumococcal Vaccine Era The Journal of infection :106341 2024 [PMID: 39521254]

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
60% of Americans say they probably won’t get an updated COVID-19 vaccine
Pew Research Center 2024-11-19 14:56:18
Most say they probably won’t get updated COVID vaccine: Survey
WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland 2024-11-20 20:30:07
The UK is no longer offering COVID vaccines to pregnant women – here’s why that might be a bad idea
The Conversation 2024-11-20 15:49:45
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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