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Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19

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    jcdl
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    I wish I could specifically select SARS-CoV. My client picked up something else.

    This is where you come in! With many computers working towards the same goal, we aim to help develop a therapeutic remedy as quickly as possible. By downloading Folding@home here [LINK] and selecting to contribute to “Any Disease”, you can help provide us with the computational power required to tackle this problem. One protein from 2019-nCoV, a protease encoded by the viral RNA, has already been crystallized. Although the 2019-nCoV spike protein of interest has not yet been resolved bound to ACE2, our objective is to use the homologous structure of the SARS-CoV spike protein to identify therapeutic antibody targets.

    I wish I could specifically select SARS-CoV. My client picked up something else.

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    1. heady
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      You definitely were able to do this in the past in your account settings. I haven't had a chance to check it recently.

      You definitely were able to do this in the past in your account settings. I haven't had a chance to check it recently.

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