Article 53F22 How HPC is aiding the fight against COVID-19

How HPC is aiding the fight against COVID-19

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Rich Brueckner
from High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC on (#53F22)
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In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis writes that HPC is playing a massive part in the fight against Covid-19 through modeling, genomics, and drug discovery. "Thanks to the work in labs and HPC centres around the world, we now know that the molecular mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 entry is via a lock and key effect; a spike on the outside of the virus acts as a key to unlock an ACE2 receptor protein on the human cell."

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