appears_in:
- scdo
contact:
  email: yongqunh@med.umich.edu
  github: yongqunh
  name: Yongqunh He
  orcid: 0000-0001-9189-9661
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: The Vaccine Ontology (VO) is a community-based biomedical ontology in
  the domain of vaccines and vaccination. VO aims to standardize vaccine types and
  annotations, integrate various vaccine data, and support computer-assisted reasoning.
  The VO supports basic vaccine R&D and clinical vaccine usage. VO is being developed
  as a community-based ontology with support and collaborations from the vaccine and
  bio-ontology communities.
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/vo.owl
example: 0000093
example_extras: []
homepage: https://violinet.org/vaccineontology
keywords:
- biological_process
- biomedical science
- clinical studies
- immunology
- infection process
- infectious disease medicine
- obo
- ontology
- pathobiochemistry
- pathogen
- preclinical studies
- small molecule
- vaccination
- vaccine
license: CC-BY-4.0
logo: https://api.fairsharing.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBck1IIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--bcbea6b26f9bd1db48d5f256c3d75bedd6fc2332/Screenshot%20From%202026-01-26%2011-30-20.png?disposition=inline
mappings:
  aberowl: VO
  biocontext: VO
  bioportal: VO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.zwtww5
  obofoundry: vo
  ols: vo
  ontobee: VO
  prefixcommons: vo
  wikidata: P1928
  wikidata.entity: Q55118646
name: Vaccine Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: VO
prefix: vo
providers:
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/vo:$1
publications:
- doi: 10.2174/1381612826666201125112131
  pubmed: '33238868'
  title: Ontology-based Precision Vaccinology for Deep Mechanism Understanding and
    Precision Vaccine Development
  year: 2021
- doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-33
  pubmed: '24209834'
  title: Network-based analysis of vaccine-related associations reveals consistent
    knowledge with the vaccine ontology
  year: 2013
- doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-3-17
  pmc: PMC3639077
  pubmed: '23256535'
  title: Ontology representation and analysis of vaccine formulation and administration
    and their effects on vaccine immune responses
  year: 2012
- doi: 10.1038/npre.2009.3553
  pubmed: '21871085'
  title: 'VO: Vaccine Ontology'
  year: 2010
- doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-2-s2-s8
  pmc: PMC3102897
  pubmed: '21624163'
  title: Mining of vaccine-associated IFN-γ gene interaction networks using the Vaccine
    Ontology
  year: 2011
- doi: 10.1186/1745-7580-6-s1-s5
  pmc: PMC2946783
  pubmed: '20875156'
  title: Bioinformatics analysis of Brucella vaccines and vaccine targets using VIOLIN
  year: 2010
- doi: 10.1101/2025.08.12.669998
  title: 'VO: The Vaccine Ontology'
  year: 2025
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VO_$1
repository: https://github.com/vaccineontology/VO
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VO_$1
version: '2026-06-12'
