A 2018 workshop: vaccine and drug ontology studies (VDOS 2018)

Junguk Hur; Cui Tao; Yongqun He

doi:10.1186/s12859-019-3191-9

A 2018 workshop: vaccine and drug ontology studies (VDOS 2018)

BMC Bioinformatics. 2019 Dec 23;20(Suppl 21):705. doi: 10.1186/s12859-019-3191-9.

Authors

Junguk Hur¹, Cui Tao², Yongqun He³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, USA. junguk.hur@med.und.edu.
² School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
³ Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Abstract

This Editorial first introduces the background of the vaccine and drug relations and how biomedical terminologies and ontologies have been used to support their studies. The history of the seven workshops, initially named VDOSME, and then named VDOS, is also summarized and introduced. Then the 7th International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2018), held on August 10th, 2018, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, is introduced in detail. These VDOS workshops have greatly supported the development, applications, and discussion of vaccine- and drug-related terminology and drug studies.

Keywords: Adverse event; Data integration; Drug; Knowledge standardization; Ontology; Text mining; VDOS workshop; Vaccine.

MeSH terms

Biological Ontologies
Congresses as Topic
Humans
Pharmaceutical Preparations*
Vaccines*

Substances

Pharmaceutical Preparations
Vaccines