Introducing COVID Moonshot weekly sprints: Help us discover a new therapy
Join our weekly sprints to prioritize compounds to make and test!
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Citizen Scientists Create an Exascale Computer to Combat COVID-19
Maxwell I Zimmerman, Justin R Porter, Michael D Ward, Sukrit Singh, Neha Vithani, Artur Meller, Upasana L Mallimadugula, Catherine E Kuhn, Jonathan H Borowsky, Rafal P Wiewiora, Matthew F D Hurley, Aoife M Harbison, Carl A Fogarty, Joseph E Coffland, Elisa Fadda, Vincent A Voelz, John…
Read moreThe Covid Moonshot
Folding@home Consortium scientists have been working hard over the past three months to support experimental collaborators working to develop new therapies for COVID-19. One of these experimental collaborations is with the COVID Moonshot,…
Read moreGoing after the mysterious SARS-COV-2 Envelope protein
Ion channels act as doors for cells: they open and close to let in and out the particles that carry electrical charge, the ions. Ion channels are therefore at the…
Read moreNEW FOLDING@HOME SOFTWARE WITH THE OPTION TO PRIORITIZE COVID-19 PROJECTS
In response to popular demand, we have created an update to the Folding@home software that allows you to prioritize COVID-19 projects. We encourage you to upgrade as the new software…
Read moreNEW SIMULATIONS TO SEARCH FOR COVID-19 TREATMENT VIA REPURPOSING EXISTING NTP ANALOG DRUGS THAT TARGET VIRAL RNA REPLICATION
Coronavirus (CoV) has a capsid that envelops the single-stranded RNA genome. Three structural proteins are shown to be associated with the capsid: membrane, envelope, and the spike protein. Chemical compounds…
Read moreCAPTURING THE COVID-19 DEMOGORGON (AKA SPIKE) IN ACTION
The spike of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (shown below) is one particularly appealing target for designing therapeutics to combat the COVID-19 disease. It is actually comprised of three identical proteins arranged…
Read moreNEW COVID-19 SMALL MOLECULE SCREENING SIMULATIONS ARE RUNNING ON FULL FOLDING@HOME!
We are excited to announce a new batch of small molecule screening simulations are now up and running on Folding@home! These simulations will help prioritize which molecules will be synthesized and assayed…
Read moreCoronavirus – What we’re doing and how you can help in simple terms
TL;DR: We’re simulating the dynamics of COVID-19 proteins to hunt for new therapeutic opportunities. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a list of ways you can help.…
Read moreFolding@home update on SARS-CoV-2 (10 Mar 2020)
This is an update on Folding@home’s efforts to assist researchers around the world taking up the global fight against COVID-19. After initial quality control and limited testing phases, Folding@home team…
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