FAIRsharing record for: The Vaccine Ontology

This FAIRsharing record describes: The Vaccine Ontology (VO) was created as part of an international community-based effort to represent vaccine knowledge and to support automated reasoning. VO describes the detailed classification and definitions of vaccine components and vaccine administration processes. To ensure consistent representation of vaccine knowledge and to support automated reasoning, a community-based effort to develop the Vaccine Ontology (VO) has been initiated. This international collaborative VO development effort has been joined by many institutes and disciplines around the world. The Vaccine Ontology is also being used in a variety of applications by many user groups in academia and industry.