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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2021

Current and prospective computational approaches and challenges for developing COVID-19 vaccines.

Woochang Hwang, Winnie Lei, Nicholas M Katritsis, Méabh MacMahon, Kathryn Chapman, Namshik Han

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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 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Computational vaccine development against protozoa.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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  6. Allele Frequency Net Database.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  11. COVID-19 Vaccines: Computational tools and Development.Informatics in medicine unlocked · 2023
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  14. A Hybrid Model Based on Improved Transformer and Graph Convolutional Network for COVID-19 Forecasting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  15. COVID-19 vaccination: Is it a matter of concern?Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Woochang HwangMilner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Winnie LeiMilner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Nicholas M KatritsisMilner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Méabh MacMahonMilner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Centre for Therapeutics Discovery, LifeArc, Stevenage, UK.
Kathryn ChapmanMilner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Namshik HanMilner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: n.han@milner.cam.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, was first identified in humans in late 2019 and is a coronavirus which is zoonotic in origin. As it spread around the world there has been an unprecedented effort in developing effective vaccines. Computational methods can be used to speed up the long and costly process of vaccine development. Antigen selection, epitope prediction, and toxicity and allergenicity prediction are areas in which computational tools have already been applied as part of reverse vaccinology for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development. However, there is potential for computational methods to assist further. We review approaches which have been used and highlight additional bioinformatic approaches and PK modelling as in silico methods which may be useful for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine design but remain currently unexplored. As more novel viruses with pandemic potential are expected to arise in future, these techniques are not limited to application to SARS-CoV-2 but also useful to rapidly respond to novel emerging viruses.

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AnimalsB-LymphocytesComputational BiologyCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesDrug DevelopmentEpitopesGene Expression ProfilingHumansSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 VaccinesEpitopes

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PMID33561453
PMCPMC7871111

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