An international group of scientists needs your help
Submit a design for a small molecule drug to combat COVID-19
By Deborah Bright
As a global pandemic disrupts people’s reality, some are turning to virtual reality to fight back. Nanome is helping scientists understand and design molecular structures related to SARS-CoV-2 — and you can too.
Using fragment-based lead discovery, scientists at Diamond Light Source have identified nearly 60 small organic compounds that bind with a weak affinity to an accessible active site in the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Your charge is to grow or combine these fragments to produce a lead for a small molecule inhibitor that binds with a higher affinity. Upload your designs here by this weekend for synthesis and testing.
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Nanome was built for this.
Get started with Nanome for free to design your submission in VR. Then, upload or drag and drop your file when you’re done. Don’t forget to share your submission with us by posting a photo to social media with hashtag #DesignedInNanome, emailing hello@nanome.ai, or giving us a shout out in the comments section when you upload your submission.
Here’s an example of Steve (our CEO) Mike (our Medicinal Chemistry Specialist) and Rob (our intern) all designing potential solutions to COVID19 using Nanome.
No headset? How about a gaming PC? Folding@home is an application that uses unused GPU computing power to simulate “potentially druggable protein targets” in SARS-CoV-2. Download Folding@home today to donate any unused GPU computing power to fight against COVID-19!
