Bio-IT World May 26, 2020
Few disciplines have seen more rapid adoption of cloud computing than life sciences research. Datasets are easily anonymized; pipelines are generally comprised of cloud-friendly open-source tools, and data are often shared, making the cloud a convenient meeting point. Overshadowing all of these reasons, however, is an insatiable demand for computing power.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on this challenge. In February of 2020, teams from the University of Tennessee and ORNL published a paper on Repurposing Therapeutics for COVID-19. Because SARS-CoV-2 had recently been sequenced, researchers had a working model of the virus. Although complicated to execute, their idea was pretty simple. Why not run computer simulations to find compounds that inhibit the virus interacting with...
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