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• World’s Fastest Super Computer “Summit”, the US's new scientific supercomputer has just find the chemical to stop COVID-19 spread  also known as Corona Virus after going  through thousands of molecules to find potential compounds that could be used to create a Corona Virus Vaccine. 

• “SUMMIT Super Computer” went through many molecules and done research to find the compounds that could be used to create the new drug against SARS-CoV-2.

• The scientific supercomputer has just managed to find around 77 compounds, which could potentially help prevent the spread of virus as well as from entering human cells.

• The IBM-built scientific supercomputer SUMMIT is atleast as large as two tennis courts.

• It is also being used by biologists at the University of Tennessee. 

• According to the study’s author Jeremy Smith, the computer took merely two days to look through the samples, which normally would have taken months on a normal system. Smith is the Director of the University of Tennessee Center for Molecular Biophysics.

 •  This research of the supercomputer was published recently in a scientific paper. The paper is, however, currently awaiting peer review. 

• The study found that the surface of the coronaviruses is covered with crown-like proteins, which allow the the viruses to bind and invade human cells. 

• Hence to a find a drug that can be used against the virus, it is significant to understand the proteins the virus contains and the human cell host receptors and the way other chemical compounds interact with them.

• The supercomputer summit was used to analyze a database comprising at least 8,000 compounds, which are known from the existing chemicals, drugs, herbal medicines and natural products.

• The computer’s main objective was to identity the compounds that appear to be capable of binding with the protein spikes SARS-CoV-2 virus and block it from invading human cells.

• According to the study’s author Jeremy Smith, the computer took merely two days to look through the samples, which normally would have taken months on a normal system. Smith is the Director of the University of Tennessee Center for Molecular Biophysics.
  Author: Param Dhagia

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