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Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2 (github.com/geohot)
43 points by belter on July 4, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


> Both drugs are protease inhibitors > Wouldn't expect it to work, don't think covid has protease

Why would they think SARS-CoV-2 doesnt have a protease?

Also that fold.py script isn’t going to get the job done. I hope all the contributors have a lot of fun, but the biology knowledge seems lacking…


I greatly enjoyed the livestreams as he puzzled through this during the early days of the war on the Invisible Enemy.


They're already gone from twitch, but there's still the YouTube archive. Part 1/7 https://youtu.be/8vWaawiUteM


I wonder if wolfram is aware or interested in this project. He also has made progress in developing a computational understanding of the physical world.


It seems most of Wolfram explorations are around statistical analyses of pandemic development. For that these two videos are pretty good:

"Exploring Pandemic Data"

https://youtu.be/Vs5APySGYnk

"Exploring and Explaining Epidemic Modeling"

https://youtu.be/kC6LHAv_lx0

But this one in the post is a different type of project.


Interesting but I was referring to his earlier work here https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-7--mechanisms-in-pro...


Nothing of substance here




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