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Use your PC’s spare capacity to research coronavirus cures (science news).

If you have a gaming PC, you can lend the graphical power of your video card to battle the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Video card manufacture Nvidia is asking PC gamers to download the distributed Folding@home computer program at https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ to assist the Folding@home team to process an initial wave of projects simulating potentially druggable protein targets from SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and the related SARS-CoV virus.

This initial wave of projects focuses on better understanding how these coronaviruses interact with the human ACE2 receptor required for viral entry into human host cells, and how researchers might be able to interfere with them through the design of new therapeutic antibodies or small molecules that might disrupt their interaction.

In the coming days, they hope to take advantage of some of the new structural biology and biochemical data that is being rapidly released by researchers around the world who are working to understand these viruses and strategies for defeating them. This work has been largely disseminated by preprint servers such as bioRxiv and chemRxiv, which aim to make research rapidly available to both other researchers and the public for other scientists to evaluate and immediately start building on.

Use your PC's spare capacity to research coronavirus cures (science news)
Use your PC’s spare capacity to research coronavirus cures (science news)

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