The pandemic has obviously changed the way the majority of the world lives, and our team members felt that we should do something to help contribute to the fight against coronavirus. Since we didn’t have access to a wet lab, we resolved to help researchers from outside the lab.
We identified the ability of software modeling tools to help model the thousands of mutations that exist and decided to use homology modeling to discern their respective crystal structures. We also wanted to be able to directly contribute to the fight via synthesizing our own antibodies that can neutralize the spike protein of the virus.
