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Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design

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Re: Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design

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Post by Aissen »

I know it's fun, and I think participative science is such a huge shift in paradigm … But considering the global impact of coronavirus, I'm wondering if there shouldn't be a better way to fund this type of endeavor.

Any cloud provider willing to donate compute to researchers?

Re: Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design

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Post by sschueller »

Aissen wrote: post #2

I know it's fun, and I think participative science is such a huge shift in paradigm … But considering the global impact of coronavirus, I'm wondering if there shouldn't be a better way to fund this type of endeavor. Any cloud provider willing to donate compute to researchers?

How about the government giving access to its huge computing power or commandeering free resources at large providers for the common good?

Re: Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design

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Post by _Wintermute »

Aissen wrote: post #2

I know it's fun, and I think participative science is such a huge shift in paradigm … But considering the global impact of coronavirus, I'm wondering if there shouldn't be a better way to fund this type of endeavor. Any cloud provider willing to donate compute to researchers?

The research institutes I've worked at have all had copious amounts of compute resources usually freely available to reserarchers. I'm not in this field, but I really don't think compute power is the limiting factor in stopping this outbreak.
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