{"id":1532,"date":"2020-12-02T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:00","slug":"carleton-scientists-use-ai-and-big-data-to-identify-a-potential-covid-19-peptide-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2020\/carleton-scientists-use-ai-and-big-data-to-identify-a-potential-covid-19-peptide-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Scientists Use AI and Big Data to Identify a Potential COVID-19 Peptide Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Scientists Use AI and Big Data to Identify a Potential COVID-19 Peptide Treatment\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Using artificial intelligence and Canada\u2019s most powerful supercomputer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ashkan-golshani\/\"><strong>Ashkan Golshani<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/frank-dehne\/\">Frank Dehne<\/a>&nbsp;analyzed millions of possible protein interactions. They have been developing algorithms that predict protein communications and potential drug treatments since 2003 and, using the IBM Blue Gene\/Q supercomputer, they were able to predict that there would be a new type of protein that could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting human cells. The researchers designed this new protein, and synthesized it. In a lab setting, it has been successful at preventing coronavirus infection with an efficacy of 75 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/ai-covid-peptide-treatment\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using artificial intelligence and Canada\u2019s most powerful supercomputer,&nbsp;Ashkan Golshani&nbsp;and&nbsp;Frank Dehne&nbsp;analyzed millions of possible protein interactions. They have been developing algorithms that predict protein communications and potential drug treatments since 2003 and, using the IBM Blue Gene\/Q supercomputer, they were able to predict that there would be a new type of protein that could stop the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}