In fairness, they basically diverted the US's supercomputers (and excess cloud computers) towards high throughput screening (6.9 million extremely state of the art computers), it was like a manhattan project but in less than a year:
Some of the knowledge gained probably will pay dividends in all sorts of other cures for other diseases.
These days, computer models have become extremely good at certain things (this field is called digital twinning) so it's more of a software problem than a bunch of biologists doing lab work.
Yeah, it's a unholy alliance between tech and bio, but what are you going to do, let other countries innovate instead of us?
In fairness, they basically diverted the US's supercomputers (and excess cloud computers) towards high throughput screening (6.9 million extremely state of the art computers), it was like a manhattan project but in less than a year:
https://covid19-hpc-consortium.org/
Some of the knowledge gained probably will pay dividends in all sorts of other cures for other diseases.
These days, computer models have become extremely good at certain things (this field is called digital twinning) so it's more of a software problem than a bunch of biologists doing lab work.
Yeah, it's a unholy alliance between tech and bio, but what are you going to do, let other countries innovate instead of us?