Special Issue “The Impact of Mass Spectrometry-Based Omics Approaches in the Fight against COVID-19: From the Diagnosis to Therapies”

Dear colleagues,

There is an urgent need to better understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle and in its variants in order to fight the pandemic with appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Mass-spectrometry-based proteomics has addressed and could further impressively address important issues including how to increase testing capacity, how the virus causes disease, which key regulators are implicated in the host response, what the cellular and systemic processes or pathways involved in the human immune system are, and many others. In the actual efforts to overcome COVID-19, however, additional studies are mandatory. This Special Issue will include articles and reviews that contribute through the means of proteomics and other integrated omics approaches to answer the various research questions around this pandemic.

Prof. Dr. Rosa Terracciano
Guest Editor

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• mass spectrometry
• proteomics
• omics
• metabolomics
• lipidomics
• glycomics
• SARS-CoV-2
• COVID-19
• antiviral agents
• pharmacotherapy
• drug discovery
• protein–protein interactions
• virus–host interaction
• vaccine
• virus diagnosis