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ArticleNucleic acids research2014

Updates on the web-based VIOLIN vaccine database and analysis system.

Yongqun He, Rebecca Racz, Samantha Sayers, Yu Lin, Thomas Todd, Junguk Hur, Xinna Li, Mukti Patel, Boyang Zhao, Monica Chung and 9 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Yongqun HeUnit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Division of Comparative Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Rebecca Racz
Samantha Sayers
Yu Lin
Thomas Todd
Junguk Hur
Xinna Li
Mukti Patel
Boyang Zhao
Monica Chung
Joseph Ostrow
Andrew Sylora
Priya Dungarani
Guerlain Ulysse
Kanika Kochhar
Boris Vidri
Kelsey Strait
George W Jourdian
Zuoshuang Xiang
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Interdepartmental Biotechnology Training ProgramT32GM008334 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WITTRUP, KARL DANE · 1989 to 2018
$15.2M
Ontology-based Information Network to Support Vaccine ResearchR01AI081062 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HE, YONGQUN · 2009 to 2012
$1.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01AI081062NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The integrative Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network (VIOLIN) vaccine research database and analysis system (http://www.violinet.org) curates, stores, analyses and integrates various vaccine-associated research data. Since its first publication in NAR in 2008, significant updates have been made. Starting from 211 vaccines annotated at the end of 2007, VIOLIN now includes over 3240 vaccines for 192 infectious diseases and eight noninfectious diseases (e.g. cancers and allergies). Under the umbrella of VIOLIN, >10 relatively independent programs are developed. For example, Protegen stores over 800 protective antigens experimentally proven valid for vaccine development. VirmugenDB annotated over 200 'virmugens', a term coined by us to represent those virulence factor genes that can be mutated to generate successful live attenuated vaccines. Specific patterns were identified from the genes collected in Protegen and VirmugenDB. VIOLIN also includes Vaxign, the first web-based vaccine candidate prediction program based on reverse vaccinology. VIOLIN collects and analyzes different vaccine components including vaccine adjuvants (Vaxjo) and DNA vaccine plasmids (DNAVaxDB). VIOLIN includes licensed human vaccines (Huvax) and veterinary vaccines (Vevax). The Vaccine Ontology is applied to standardize and integrate various data in VIOLIN. VIOLIN also hosts the Ontology of Vaccine Adverse Events (OVAE) that logically represents adverse events associated with licensed human vaccines.

Indexed as

Databases, GeneticAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigensData MiningGenesGenomicsHumansInternetPlasmidsProteinsSequence AlignmentSoftwareSystems IntegrationVaccinesVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, DNAAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigensProteinsVaccinesVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, DNAVirulence Factors

Identifiers

PMID24259431
PMCPMC3964998
OpenAlexW2090577544

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