Sequencing of the virus in Cabo Verde by Institut Pasteur, Dakar confirms that the Zika virus currently circulating in Cabo Verde is the same as the one circulating in the Americas – the Asian type- and was most likely imported from Brazil. This is the first time that the Zika strain responsible for the outbreaks […]
The UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences announced Thursday the launch of a study that will use computers and mobile devices of volunteers to screen potential drug candidates for the Zika virus. The OpenZika project will work with IBM’s World Community Grid, which provides massive amounts of free computing power to […]
IBM’s World Community Grid and scientists from Brazil, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego, and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have launched OpenZika, a project to find drug candidates to treat Zika, a fast spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health […]
“The best part of this project is that it’s truly open — we will share all of the data we gather with the research community and general public, further accelerating Zika virus research,” Siqueira-Neto said. “What’s more, researchers not already participating in OpenZika are invited to submit proposals to receive free computing power to support […]
Drug discovery scientist teams up with crowdsourced research project. IBMs World Community Grid and scientists from Brazil, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego, and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have launched OpenZika, a project to find drug candidates to treat Zika, a fast spreading virus that the […]
“In 2015, I started a project in collaboration with Dr. Sean Ekins, a pharmacologist with extensive research experience, to focus on the development of computational models to identify active compounds against the dengue virus, which is a serious mosquito-borne disease found throughout the world. These active compounds could become candidates for antiviral drugs. We are […]
Rutgers is taking a leading role in an IBM-sponsored World Community Grid project that will use supercomputing power to identify potential drug candidates to cure the Zika virus. The project, known as OpenZika, employs a global team of scientists who will perform “virtual” experiments in a search of treatments for the fast-spreading virus that the […]
Two Rutgers scientists are seeking the public’s help as they search for a cure for the Zika virus. Alex Perryman and Joel Freundlich are part of a supercomputing project that is screening current drugs and millions of drug-like compounds against models of Zika protein structures. Anyone with an Internet-connected computer or Android smartphone or tablet […]
While you sleep, your laptop could be helping to find a treatment for the Zika virus, says a Rutgers researcher who has been tapped to oversee a worldwide computer project. The World Community Grid, sponsored by IBM, uses the idle “screensaver” time on more than three million computers – both private and institutional – to […]
IBM is sponsoring the project using its World Community Grid. The grid aids scientists by harnessing the unused computing power of volunteers’ computers and Android devices. Anyone with an Internet-connected computer or Android smartphone or tablet can download an app that runs the program while their computer is idle. When the computer’s CPU is in […]
