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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2021

In silico T cell epitope identification for SARS-CoV-2: Progress and perspectives.

Muhammad Saqib Sohail, Syed Faraz Ahmed, Ahmed Abdul Quadeer, Matthew R McKay

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 74 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Muhammad Saqib SohailDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Syed Faraz AhmedDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Ahmed Abdul QuadeerDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: eeaaquadeer@ust.hk.
Matthew R McKayDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: m.mckay@ust.hk.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Growing evidence suggests that T cells may play a critical role in combating severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Hence, COVID-19 vaccines that can elicit a robust T cell response may be particularly important. The design, development and experimental evaluation of such vaccines is aided by an understanding of the landscape of T cell epitopes of SARS-CoV-2, which is largely unknown. Due to the challenges of identifying epitopes experimentally, many studies have proposed the use of in silico methods. Here, we present a review of the in silico methods that have been used for the prediction of SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes. These methods employ a diverse set of technical approaches, often rooted in machine learning. A performance comparison is provided based on the ability to identify a specific set of immunogenic epitopes that have been determined experimentally to be targeted by T cells in convalescent COVID-19 patients, shedding light on the relative performance merits of the different approaches adopted by the in silico studies. The review also puts forward perspectives for future research directions.

Indexed as

Computer SimulationAnimalsCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 VaccinesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteAllergenicityComputational predictionCoronavirusCOVID-19ImmunogenicityImmunoinformaticsPeptide-HLA bindingReverse vaccinologySARS-CoVToxicity

Identifiers

PMID33465451
PMCPMC7832442
OpenAlexW3124869717

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