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ReviewImmunoTargets and therapy2020

Immunoinformatics and Vaccine Development: An Overview.

Angus Nnamdi Oli, Wilson Okechukwu Obialor, Martins Ositadimma Ifeanyichukwu, Damian Chukwu Odimegwu, Jude Nnaemeka Okoyeh, George Ogonna Emechebe, Samson Adedeji Adejumo, Gordon C Ibeanu

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Review in ImmunoTargets and therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 141 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
141citing papers in PubMed
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

141 citing papers in PubMed, 263 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Angus Nnamdi OliDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.ORCID 0000-0001-8519-2555
Wilson Okechukwu ObialorDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.
Martins Ositadimma IfeanyichukwuDepartment of Immunology, College of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Anambra, Nigeria.
Damian Chukwu OdimegwuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu, Nigeria.ORCID 0000-0001-6537-9160
Jude Nnaemeka OkoyehDepartment of Biology and Clinical Laboratory Science, Division of Arts and Sciences, Neumann University, Aston, PA 19014-1298, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9745-249X
George Ogonna EmechebeDepartment of Pediatrics, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Awka, Nigeria.ORCID 0000-0001-5999-8109
Samson Adedeji AdejumoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.ORCID 0000-0001-9971-5193
Gordon C IbeanuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Science, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7673-2529
Nnamdi Azikiwe University · NGChukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University · NGNeumann University · USNorth Carolina Central University · USUniversity of Nigeria · NG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of vaccines have resulted in a remarkable improvement in global health. It has saved several lives, reduced treatment costs and raised the quality of animal and human lives. Current traditional vaccines came empirically with either vague or completely no knowledge of how they modulate our immune system. Even at the face of potential vaccine design advance, immune-related concerns (as seen with specific vulnerable populations, cases of emerging/re-emerging infectious disease, pathogens with complex lifecycle and antigenic variability, need for personalized vaccinations, and concerns for vaccines' immunological safety -specifically vaccine likelihood to trigger non-antigen-specific responses that may cause autoimmunity and vaccine allergy) are being raised. And these concerns have driven immunologists toward research for a better approach to vaccine design that will consider these challenges. Currently, immunoinformatics has paved the way for a better understanding of some infectious disease pathogenesis, diagnosis, immune system response and computational vaccinology. The importance of this immunoinformatics in the study of infectious diseases is diverse in terms of computational approaches used, but is united by common qualities related to host-pathogen relationship. Bioinformatics methods are also used to assign functions to uncharacterized genes which can be targeted as a candidate in vaccine design and can be a better approach toward the inclusion of women that are pregnant into vaccine trials and programs. The essence of this review is to give insight into the need to focus on novel computational, experimental and computation-driven experimental approaches for studying of host-pathogen interactions and thus making a case for its use in vaccine development.

Indexed as

computational vaccinologyemerging infectionsimmune system; vaccinologyimmunoinformaticsvaccine design

Identifiers

PMID32161726
PMCPMC7049754
OpenAlexW3007680806

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