On the News! Folding@home exascale supercomputer finds potential targets for COVID-19 cure

[LubyMoo]

Shall we celebrate a bit? It seems we got a new breakthrough! 

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"By generating over 100-fold more data than anyone else has access to, we were able to capture events like a dramatic opening of the spike that exposes surfaces one wouldn't otherwise have expected were viable targets. Likewise, we also found opening motions that create novel pockets in many other viral proteins. All these new structural features could be useful drug targets. We're sharing all the data online so that others can use it to understand the virus and develop antivirals in parallel with our own efforts," Bowman said.

Full Article: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3587388/foldinghome-exascale-supercomputer-finds-potential-targets-for-covid-19-cure.html

 

And said study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.27.175430v3

 

Let's pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. 

[TVwazhere]

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By generating over 100-fold more data than anyone else has access to

[Guest]

I'm not saying this is thanks to @GOTSpectrum... but I'm not not saying it either.

[fordy_rounds]

8 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

I'm not saying this is thanks to @GOTSpectrum... but I'm not not saying it either.

A solid portion of this is you, @Den-Fi. Nearly a billion points is a lot of progress toward killing Covid. Thanks!

[Tristerin]

Ive been focusing my meager points on Covid as well, neat to be apart of something like this - hit 6 million this a.m.!