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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Computational tools and data integration to accelerate vaccine development: challenges, opportunities, and future directions.

Lindsey N Anderson, Charles Tapley Hoyt, Jeremy D Zucker, Andrew D McNaughton, Jeremy R Teuton, Klas Karis, Natasha N Arokium-Christian, Jackson T Warley, Zachary R Stromberg, Benjamin M Gyori and 1 more

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Lindsey N Anderson *Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.
Charles Tapley Hoyt *Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
Jeremy D ZuckerPacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.
Andrew D McNaughtonPacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.
Jeremy R TeutonPacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.
Klas KarisKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
Natasha N Arokium-ChristianPacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.
Jackson T WarleyPacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.
Zachary R StrombergPacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.
Benjamin M GyoriKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
Neeraj KumarPacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, WA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of effective vaccines is crucial for combating current and emerging pathogens. Despite significant advances in the field of vaccine development there remain numerous challenges including the lack of standardized data reporting and curation practices, making it difficult to determine correlates of protection from experimental and clinical studies. Significant gaps in data and knowledge integration can hinder vaccine development which relies on a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between pathogens and the host immune system. In this review, we explore the current landscape of vaccine development, highlighting the computational challenges, limitations, and opportunities associated with integrating diverse data types for leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques in vaccine design. We discuss the role of natural language processing, semantic integration, and causal inference in extracting valuable insights from published literature and unstructured data sources, as well as the computational modeling of immune responses. Furthermore, we highlight specific challenges associated with uncertainty quantification in vaccine development and emphasize the importance of establishing standardized data formats and ontologies to facilitate the integration and analysis of heterogeneous data. Through data harmonization and integration, the development of safe and effective vaccines can be accelerated to improve public health outcomes. Looking to the future, we highlight the need for collaborative efforts among researchers, data scientists, and public health experts to realize the full potential of AI-assisted vaccine design and streamline the vaccine development process.

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Computational BiologyVaccine DevelopmentVaccinesAnimalsArtificial IntelligenceHumansMachine LearningVaccinesartificial intelligencecomputational methodscorrelates of protectiondata harmonizationknowledge extractionlarge language modelsmachine learningvaccine platform technologies

Identifiers

PMID40124369
PMCPMC11925797

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