Medical Xpress August 12, 2022
Kelly Malcom, University of Michigan

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in late 2019, more than 100 COVID-19 vaccines have entered or completed clinical trials, many of which have been authorized to be used around the world. However, fighting the ever-increasing threat posed by new SARS-CoV-2 variants calls for more efficient ways of developing safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19—and other emerging infectious diseases.

Anthony Huffman, Ph.D., of the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Yongqun He, Ph.D., and their colleagues at the University of Michigan Medical School recently published a review article in the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics that systematically surveys various methods in so-called rational COVID-19 vaccine design—which uses IT to determine potential vaccine targets—and proposes a strategy for effective and efficient...

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