Announcing a World Community Grid Project: OpenZika

An idea starts out as a response to a challenge and becomes a fully-fledged scientific research project. Then before you know it, it becomes a global project involving thousands of people, and you are writing a blog about it.

It began as I pondered “how can I, a scientist without a lab” make a difference with a disease like the Zika virus infection that is garnering global attention? When all you have is a computer and your wits, it may seem an uphill battle. I knew that gathering a cadre of collaborators would provide the support needed and, more importantly, the different perspectives and experience to gather momentum and have impact. This was the start of Zika Open (as it was initially known)—an open science collaboration. It began a few months ago in January 2016, by reaching out to Priscilla Yang, Ph.D., at Harvard University, which then led me to build a homology model of the glycoprotein E—a target on the surface of Zika virus. I also connected to Carolina Horta Andrade, Ph.D., at Federal University of Goias in Brazil, with whom I had collaborated on a Dengue virus project. From there we gathered other collaborators which led to us collaboratively writing a perspective submitted to F1000Research.

 

By Sean Ekins

 

 

Announcing a World Community Grid Project: OpenZika | AAPS Blog

By Sean Ekins An idea starts out as a response to a challenge and becomes a fully-fledged scientific research project. Then before you know it, it becomes a global project involving thousands of people, and you are writing a blog about it. It began as I pondered “how can I, a scientist without a lab” make…

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