VDOS 2015 - 4th International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS-2015)

4th International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies
(VDOS-2015)
https://sites.google.com/site/vdosworkshop/vdos201...
Organizers:
Cui Tao, PhD, University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston
Luca Toldo, PhD, Information Services Merck
Yongqun “Oliver” He, DVM, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School
Sivaram Arabandi, MD, MS Ontopro LLC Houston, TX
Vaccines and drugs have contributed to dramatic improvements in public health worldwide. There have been efforts from various areas in the biomedical ontology community that extend existing health and clinical terminology systems (e.g., SNOMED, RxNorm, NDF-RT, and MedDRA), vernacular medical terminologies, and their applications to research and clinical data associated with vaccines and drugs.
This workshop will provide a platform for showcasing and discussing innovative solutions and challenges in the development and applications of biomedical ontologies to represent and analyze vaccines and drugs, their administration, immune responses induced, adverse events, and similar topics.
The workshop will cover two main areas: (i) ontology representation of vaccines/drugs and related domains, and (ii) ontology applications in real world situations. Examples of biomedical subject matter in the scope of this workshop: drug components (e.g., drug active ingredients, vaccine antigens and adjuvants), administration details (e.g., dosage, administration route, and frequency), gene immune responses and pathways, drug-drug or drug-food interactions, and adverse events. Both research and clinical subjects will be covered. We will also focus on computational methods used to study these, for example, literature mining of vaccine/drug-related literature and social media mining, retrieval and analysis of vaccine/drug-gene