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Published: 05/23/2020
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During idle periods, your computer can run COVID-19 experiments to predict the effectiveness of chemical compounds in inhibiting the functions of viral proteins as a possible treatment for coronavirus.
OpenPandemics – COVID-19 is an initiative by researchers from the Forli Lab at Scripps Research who are speeding up the search by enlisting the help of volunteers from the World Community Grid.
Join Team Disabled World and the OpenPandemics COVID-19 project at World Community Grid, which is helping Scripps Research researchers look for potential COVID-19 treatments.
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COVID-19 is a disease caused by SARS-CoV2, a virus in the coronavirus family. These viruses cause diseases that primarily affect the human respiratory tract and possibly other important organs. COVID-19 can lead to serious illness or even death. You and your computer can help Scripps Research scientists find possible treatments.
Scripps Research is a not-for-profit American medical research organization focused on research and teaching in the biomedical sciences. The institute is headquartered in La Jolla, California and has a sister facility in Jupiter, Florida. It has 250 laboratories employing 2,400 scientists, technicians, graduate students, and administrative and other staff. This makes it the largest private, non-profit biomedical research organization in the United States and among the largest in the world.
First identified as pneumonia of unknown origin in late 2019, the disease was renamed COVID-19 in February 2020. COVID-19 proved highly contagious and quickly spread to all continents. Shortly after COVID-19 was identified, scientists began the complex task of developing a vaccine that could prevent the virus from spreading. However, this process is likely to take many months, or possibly years, even with concerted global efforts by scientists and accelerated clinical trials.
When you become a World Community Grid volunteer, you are donating your device’s free computing power to help scientists solve the world’s biggest health and sustainability problems. And since all the data, tools and processes developed by OpenPandemics – COVID-19 are freely shared, the project can benefit the entire scientific community.
Screenshot of the Team Disabled World computer screen saver running the OpenPandemics COVID-19 project.
Join Team Disabled World and the OpenPandemics COVID-19 project at World Community Grid, which is helping Scripps Research researchers look for potential COVID-19 treatments. We need your help!
Other World Community Grid projects
World Community Grid projects that you can contribute computing power to include:
- Smash Childhood Cancer – Most of current cancer research is focused on cancers that mostly affect adults. That’s why World Community Grid volunteers are helping an international research team find new treatments for some of the most common cancers in children.
- FightAIDS @ Home – AIDS is constantly evolving. You and your computer can play a key role in helping the millions of people affected by this deadly virus.
- Cancer Marker Mapping – Early and Accurate Detection Saves Lives. Your computer can help find molecular markers that researchers can use to detect cancer earlier and develop more effective cancer treatments.
- Microbiome Immunity Project – Trillions of bacteria in our bodies can play huge roles in developing diseases such as type 1 diabetes. As? Help researchers find out in this comprehensive study of the human microbiome.
- Help Against TB – Your computer can help researchers learn more about tuberculosis and how to overcome it. A third of the world’s population is home to the tuberculosis bacterium. The disease killed 1.5 million people in 2014, making it one of the deadliest diseases in the world.
- Africa Rainfall Project – Your computer is running simulations of rain storms in sub-Saharan Africa. These simulations are used to help farmers successfully increase their crops. Once the researchers at the Africa Rainfall Project receive the results of these simulations, they will be compared with rainfall data from The Weather Company, satellite data and ground observations.
Speed up your research: no investment of time or money
OpenPandemics – COVID-19 is one such effort led by researchers from the Forli Lab at Scripps Research who are speeding up the search by enlisting the help of volunteers from the World Community Grid.
As a World Community Grid volunteer, you will download a safe software program to your computer. When your computer isn’t using its full processing power, it automatically runs a simulated experiment in the background that can help predict the effectiveness of a particular chemical compound in inhibiting the functions of viral proteins as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Your computer will then return the results of the completed simulation and request the next simulation. World Community Grid combines your computer’s results with millions of results from other volunteers around the world and sends them to the Scripps Research team for analysis.
Join Team Disabled World and the OpenPandemics COVID-19 project at World Community Grid, which is helping Scripps Research researchers look for potential COVID-19 treatments. We need your help!
Editor: BOINC and Rosetta @ home, best known for their SETI @ home project, are also running health and medical programs on home computers, including COVID-19, to predict the structure of proteins important to coronavirus disease, as well as new ones , stable mini-proteins to be used as potential therapeutics and diagnostics.
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Journal: Disabled World. Language: English. Author: Disabled World. Electronic publication date: 2020-05-23. Last revision: 2020-05-23. Reference title: “OpenPandemics COVID-19 World Community Grid Project”, Source: OpenPandemics COVID-19 World Community Grid Project. Summary: During idle times, your computer can run COVID-19 experiments to predict the effectiveness of chemical compounds in inhibiting the functions of viral proteins as a possible treatment for coronavirus. Retrieved on December 25, 2018 from https://www.disabled-world.com/calculators-charts/world-community-grid.php – reference category number: DW # 286-13844.
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