Tao Cui, He Yongqun, Arabandi Sivaram
School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
J Biomed Semantics. 2014 Mar 20;5(1):16. doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-5-16.
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.
2013年“疫苗与药物本体研究”（VDOS 2013）国际研讨会系列聚焦于与疫苗和药物相关的本体建模及应用。药物和疫苗极大地促进了全球公共卫生状况的改善。在过去十年中，生物医学本体学界付出了巨大努力，从本体角度对与疫苗和药物相关的各个领域进行描述，包括扩展诸如SNOMED、RxNorm、NDF-RT和MedDRA等现有的临床术语系统，以及开发如疫苗本体等新模型。VDOS研讨会系列提供了一个平台，用于讨论生物医学本体在表示和分析药物与疫苗、其给药方式、宿主免疫反应、不良事件及其他相关主题的开发与应用过程中的创新解决方案及挑战。本期专题收录的六篇全文聚焦于三个主要领域：（i）本体开发与表示；（ii）本体映射、维护与审核；（iii）本体应用。
