A 2013 workshop: vaccine and drug ontology studies (VDOS 2013)

Cui Tao,Yongqun He,Sivaram Arabandi

doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-16

Abstract

The 2013 “Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies” (VDOS 2013) international workshop series focuses on vaccine- and drug-related ontology modeling and applications. Drugs and vaccines have contributed to dramatic improvements in public health worldwide. Over the last decade, tremendous efforts have been made in the biomedical ontology community to ontologically represent various areas associated with vaccines and drugs – extending existing clinical terminology systems such as SNOMED, RxNorm, NDF-RT, and MedDRA, as well as developing new models such as Vaccine Ontology. The VDOS workshop series provides a platform for discussing innovative solutions as well as the challenges in the development and applications of biomedical ontologies for representing and analyzing drugs and vaccines, their administration, host immune responses, adverse events, and other related topics. The six full-length papers included in this thematic issue focuses on three main areas: (i) ontology development and representation, (ii) ontology mapping, maintaining and auditing, and (iii) ontology applications.

Highlights

Introduction and backgroundDrugs and vaccines have been critical to prevent and treat human and animal diseases
The 2013 “Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies” workshop (VDOS 2013) workshop series aims to become an international forum for researchers to identify, propose, and discuss solutions for important research problems in ontology representation and analysis of vaccine and drug formation and preparation, administration, function mechanisms, and induced host immune responses
The first workshop of the series was organized as the “Vaccine and Drug Ontology in the Study of Mechanism and Effect” workshop (VDOSME 2012) [1] on July 21, 2012, at Graz, Germany, as part of the third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012)

Summary

Introduction

Introduction and backgroundDrugs and vaccines have been critical to prevent and treat human and animal diseases. Many drug and vaccine related ontologies have already been or are being developed for different use cases and applications. This workshop aimed to support the deeper understanding of vaccine and drug mechanisms and effects.

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