Monday, August 3, 2020

Oak Ridge Supercomputer Sorts Virus Code

Mark Anderson has written an article that was included in the IEEE Spectrum on August 2, 2020.  It discussed massive computer power studying the genetic mature of the COVID-19 and its effects on patients.

“A supercomputer-powered genetic study of COVID-19 patients has spawned a possible breakthrough into how the novel coronavirus causes disease—and points toward new potential therapies to treat its worst symptoms.

“The genetic data mining research uncovered a common pattern of gene activity in the lungs of symptomatic COVID-19 patients, which when compared to gene activity in healthy control populations revealed a mechanism that appears to be a key weapon in the coronavirus’s arsenal.

“The good news is there are already drugs—a few of which are already FDA-approved—aimed at some of these very same pathologies.”

Much more at:  https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/computing/hardware/has-the-summit-supercomputer-cracked-the-covid-code


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