VIOLIN -- Vaccine Investigation and OnLine Information Network
What you can do:
A web-based vaccine database and analysis system
Highlights:
- VIOLIN is a web-based central resource, allowing easy curation, comparison and analysis of vaccine-related research data across various human pathogens (e.g. Haemophilus influenzae, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Plasmodium falciparum) of medical importance and across humans, other natural hosts and laboratory animals.
- Vaccine-related peer-reviewed literature data have been downloaded into the database from PubMed and are searchable through various literature search programs.
- Vaccine data are also annotated, edited and submitted to the database through a web-based interactive system that integrates efficient computational literature mining and accurate manual curation.
- Curated information includes general microbial pathogenesis and host protective immunity, vaccine preparation and characteristics, stimulated host responses after vaccination and protection efficacy after challenge.
- Vaccine-related pathogen and host genes are also annotated and available for searching through customized BLAST programs.
- All VIOLIN data are available for download in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based data exchange format.
- VIOLIN is expected to become a centralized source of vaccine information and to provide investigators in basic and clinical sciences with curated data and bioinformatics tools for vaccine research and development.
Keywords:
- vaccines
- immunity
- vaccine preparation
- host response
- protection efficacy
- host gene
- pathogen
- human pathogens
- Haemophilus influenzae
- human immunodeficiency virus
- HIV
- Plasmodium falciparum
- microbial pathogenesis
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This record last updated: 04-11-2008