Spanish National Center for Biotechnology uses Atos supercomputing expertise to find out how Covid-19 virus initiates infection

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a worldwide leader in digital transformation, announce that the Biocomputing Device at the Spanish Countrywide Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), section of the Spanish Countrywide Analysis Council (CSIC), is applying Atos’ supercomputing source to produce a refined 3D design of the SARS-Cov2 spike protein. By figuring out a lot more element about the structure of this protein, which is the just one that the virus uses to enter human cells, researchers can greater fully grasp how the virus initiates infection. This essential action ahead could help in the advancement of a vaccine.

The design, created at the Biocomputing Device of CNB-CSIC applying 3D cryoelectron microscopy, a difficult structural method, will help researchers and researchers to visualize not only the spike glycoprotein but also other SARS-Cov2 proteins. It has been manufactured readily available to all scientific researchers across the planet functioning on the virus.

Image: Refined 3D design of the SARS-Cov2 spike protein

Professor JM Carazo of CNB, reported: “We’re really very pleased that we have been ready to make this essential action ahead in the structural being familiar with of the viral glycoprotein, which is due in section to the acceleration furnished by our highly effective supercomputers. Now the scientific neighborhood all over the world can access a mass of structural awareness close to SARS-Cov-2, so we can get the job done with each other to help make this invisible enemy noticeable.”

 Dr Natalia Jimenez, Atos’ HPC, AI and Quantum Daily life Sciences Centre of Excellence Director included: “We’re honored to be ready to present these researchers the extraordinary computing electric power necessary to help them get final results quicker. By combining investigation skills with our technological skills and encounter, we’re ready to create beneficial sources that will help support the worldwide struggle in opposition to the virus.”

The HPC source consists of Atos’ BullSequana X supercomputer, based mostly at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, as well as extra compute abilities and access to Atos industry experts at Atos’ new worldwide HPC, AI & Quantum Daily life Sciences Centre of Excellence. CNB-CSIC is just one of the first investigation institutes to use this new middle, which delivers researchers with access to major-edge technologies, this sort of as Quantum, Higher Performance Computing and AI, supported by Atos’ solutions, products and services and skills in these sectors to help strengthen Daily life Sciences discovery and innovation.

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