A proposed workflow for proactive virus surveillance and prediction of variants for vaccine design

PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Dec 16;17(12):e1009624. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009624. eCollection 2021 Dec.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • COVID-19 / immunology
  • COVID-19 / prevention & control
  • COVID-19 / virology
  • COVID-19 Vaccines
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Humans
  • Public Health Surveillance / methods*
  • Research Design
  • SARS-CoV-2 / genetics
  • SARS-CoV-2 / immunology
  • SARS-CoV-2 / pathogenicity
  • Viral Vaccines*
  • Virus Diseases* / immunology
  • Virus Diseases* / prevention & control
  • Virus Diseases* / virology
  • Viruses* / genetics
  • Viruses* / immunology
  • Viruses* / pathogenicity
  • Workflow*

Substances

  • COVID-19 Vaccines
  • Viral Vaccines

Supplementary concepts

  • SARS-CoV-2 variants

Grants and funding

J.S. was supported financially by the generosity of Eric and Wendy Schmidt by recommendation of the Schmidt Futures program (https://schmidtfutures.com), and through Fast Grants (part of Emergent Ventures at George Mason University) (https://fastgrants.org). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.