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Half a million computers across the world unite to fight against COVID-19 virus

They need one million computers and it's your chance to be one in a million!

26-Mar-2020

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More than half a million computers are contributing to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project that pulls together computers around the world.

Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up their computer for this global project.

10 times as powerful as the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the scientists.

Attempts to understand the action of the spike protein in COVID-19 virus.

Needs to find weak points which would be suitable sites for drugs to attach and alter it.

Based in St. Louis School of Medicine, Washington University.

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Folding@Home

Distributed computing project for disease research

Gregory R. Bowman

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University

Washington University in St. Louis

Private multidisciplinary research university.

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AI in Healthcare, Coronavirus