ReviewHeliyon2024
Bioinformatics and molecular biology tools for diagnosis, prevention, treatment and prognosis of COVID-19.
Review in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
33 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Since December 2019, a new form of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has emerged worldwide, caused by SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This disease was called COVID-19 and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. Symptoms can vary from a common cold to severe pneumonia, hypoxemia, respiratory distress, and death. During this period of world stress, the medical and scientific community were able to acquire information and generate scientific data at unprecedented speed, to better understand the disease and facilitate vaccines and therapeutics development. Notably, bioinformatics tools were instrumental in decoding the viral genome and identifying critical targets for COVID-19 diagnosis and therapeutics. Through the integration of omics data, bioinformatics has also improved our understanding of disease pathogenesis and virus-host interactions, facilitating the development of targeted treatments and vaccines. Furthermore, molecular biology techniques have accelerated the design of sensitive diagnostic tests and the characterization of immune responses, paving the way for precision medicine approaches in treating COVID-19. Our analysis highlights the indispensable contributions of bioinformatics and molecular biology to the global effort against COVID-19. In this review, we aim to revise the COVID-19 features, diagnostic, prevention, treatment options, and how molecular biology, modern bioinformatic tools, and collaborations have helped combat this pandemic. An integrative literature review was performed, searching articles on several sites, including PUBMED and Google Scholar indexed in referenced databases, prioritizing articles from the last 3 years. The lessons learned from this COVID-19 pandemic will place the world in a much better position to respond to future pandemics.
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