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 >>

2/6/2025: VIOLIN vaccine knowledgebase was systematically analyzed for pattern detection, which was published in Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol today.
11/15/2024: A paper titled "Impact of climate change on vaccine responses and inequity", was published in Nature Climate Change.
11/8/2024: A paper titled "Assessing acute kidney injury risk after COVID vaccination and infection in a large cohort study" (PMID: 39516206, PMCID: PMC11549351) was published in npj Vaccines. Congratulations!
6/19/2024: A paper on empowering standardization of cancer vaccines through ontology (PMID: 38890666, PMCID: PMC11186274) was published on JBMS.
4/25/2024: A JBMS paper on ontological representation, modeling, and analysis of parasite vaccines (PMID: 38664818, PMCID: PMC11044459) was published.
1/12/2024: Our CanVaxKB cancer vaccine knowledgebase was published in NAR Cancer (PMID: 38204924, PMCID: PMC10776203).

Latest Vaccine Publications >>

Anterasian C, Gela A, Mwambene TD, Shah JA, Ivie J, Dill-McFarland KA, Hanekom WA, Kiritsy MC, Sassetti CM, Musvosvi M, Hatherill M, Scriba TJ, Hawn TR. BCG induced innate immune response heterogeneity and susceptibility to pediatric tuberculosis Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2025 [PMID: 40174917]
Akingbola A, Adegbesan CA, Adewole O, Idahor C, Odukoya T, Nwaeze E, Mayowa S, Abdullahi O, Mariaria PK. Understanding the resurgence of mpox: key drivers and lessons from recent outbreaks in Africa Tropical medicine and health 53(1):47 2025 [PMID: 40181435]

Vaccine News >>

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Statistics: The VIOLIN vaccine database contains 4712 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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