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Spanish National Center for Biotechnology uses Atos supercomputing expertise to find out how Covid-19 virus initiates infection

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a global chief in digital transformation, announce that the Biocomputing Unit at the Spanish Nationwide Center for Biotechnology (CNB), part of the Spanish Nationwide Investigation Council (CSIC), is working with Atos’ supercomputing useful resource to develop a refined 3D product of the SARS-Cov2 spike protein. By understanding extra depth about the structure of this protein, which is the a single that the virus takes advantage of to enter human cells, researchers can superior recognize how the virus initiates an infection. This essential action ahead may aid in the development of a vaccine.

The product, created at the Biocomputing Unit of CNB-CSIC working with 3D cryoelectron microscopy, a sophisticated structural strategy, will enable researchers and experts to visualize not only the spike glycoprotein but also other SARS-Cov2 proteins. It has been produced accessible to all scientific researchers throughout the entire world operating on the virus.

Picture: Refined 3D product of the SARS-Cov2 spike protein

Professor JM Carazo of CNB, reported: “We’re truly proud that we have been ready to make this essential action ahead in the structural knowing of the viral glycoprotein, which is owing in part to the acceleration supplied by our strong supercomputers. Now the scientific group around the globe can obtain a mass of structural expertise all around SARS-Cov-2, so we can work collectively to aid make this invisible enemy obvious.”

 Dr Natalia Jimenez, Atos’ HPC, AI and Quantum Everyday living Sciences Center of Excellence Director added: “We’re honored to be ready to offer these researchers the exceptional computing energy necessary to aid them get effects more quickly. By combining investigation experience with our technological experience and working experience, we’re ready to develop worthwhile resources that will aid support the global combat versus the virus.

The HPC useful resource incorporates Atos’ BullSequana X supercomputer, based mostly at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, in addition extra compute abilities and obtain to Atos authorities at Atos’ new global HPC, AI & Quantum Everyday living Sciences Center of Excellence. CNB-CSIC is a single of the initially investigation institutes to use this new centre, which gives researchers with obtain to leading-edge systems, this sort of as Quantum, Substantial Performance Computing and AI, supported by Atos’ solutions, solutions and experience in these sectors to aid raise Everyday living Sciences discovery and innovation.

 

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Atos is a global chief in digital transformation with one hundred ten,000 staff in seventy three nations and yearly earnings of € twelve billion. European amount a single in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Performance Computing, the Group gives stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Massive Facts, Company Apps and Electronic Office solutions. The Group is the Around the world Details Technological know-how Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates below the brand names Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The purpose of Atos is to aid structure the future of the information house. Its experience and solutions support the development of expertise, education and investigation in a multicultural approach and add to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the Group enables its consumers and staff, and users of societies at massive to stay, work and develop sustainably, in a risk-free and safe information house.

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