Originally published at: New Breakthrough in Coronavirus Research Uses GPU-Accelerated Software to Support Treatment Development | NVIDIA Technical Blog
To help in the development of a treatment or vaccine for COVID-19, University of Texas at Austin and National Institute of Health (NIH) researchers recently achieved a critical breakthrough—creating the first 3D, atomic-scale map of the virus. “2019-nCoV makes use of a densely glycosylated spike (S) protein to gain entry into host cells,” the researchers…