Ideas for how informaticians can get involved with COVID-19 research

• Published in: BioData mining Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 3 - 16
• Main Authors: Moore, Jason H, Barnett, Ian, Boland, Mary Regina, Chen, Yong, Demiris, George, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Graciela, Herman, Daniel S, Himes, Blanca E, Hubbard, Rebecca A, Kim, Dokyoon, Morris, Jeffrey S, Mowery, Danielle L, Ritchie, Marylyn D, Shen, Li, Urbanowicz, Ryan, Holmes, John H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 12.05.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS; Carfilzomib; CCR5 protein; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Elbasvir; Electronic health records; Electronic medical records; Epidemics; Genomes; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Information services; Management tools; Mechanical ventilation; Methods; Natural language processing; Phylogenetics; Project management; Resource management; Telemedicine; Ventilation; Viral diseases; Viruses
• ISSN: 1756-0381; 1756-0381
• DOI: 10.1186/s13040-020-00213-y

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on population health and wellbeing. Biomedical informatics is central to COVID-19 research efforts and for the delivery of healthcare for COVID-19 patients. Critical to this effort is the participation of informaticians who typically work on other basic science or clinical problems. The goal of this editorial is to highlight some examples of COVID-19 research areas that could benefit from informatics expertise. Each research idea summarizes the COVID-19 application area, followed by an informatics methodology, approach, or technology that could make a contribution. It is our hope that this piece will motivate and make it easy for some informaticians to adopt COVID-19 research projects.