Artificial Intelligence helping to fight Coronavirus.
                     Artificial Intelligence helping to fight 
Coronavirus
COVID-19 Outbreak
• As the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak continues to 
spread across the globe, companies and researchers are 
looking to use artificial intelligence as a way of addressing 
the challenges of the virus. From moderating social media 
to unpicking the very essence of COVID-19, AI is helping 
tackle the coronavirus in all manner of ingenious ways.
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How AI is being used?
• A number of research projects are using AI to identify drugs 
that were developed to fight other diseases but which could 
now be repurposed to take on coronavirus. By studying the 
molecular setup of existing drugs with AI, companies want to 
identify which ones might disrupt the way COVID-19 works. 
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BenevolentAI
• BenevolentAI, a London-based drug-discovery company, 
began turning its attentions towards the coronavirus problem. 
The company's AI-powered knowledge graph can digest large 
volumes of scientific literature and biomedical research to find 
links between the genetic and biological properties of diseases 
and the composition and action of drugs. 
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Not enough time
• While a large body of biomedical research has built up around 
chronic diseases over decades, COVID-19 only has a few 
months' worth of studies attached to it. But researchers can 
use the information that they have to track down other viruses 
with similar elements, see how they function, and then work out 
which drugs could be used to inhibit the virus. 
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Faster research prospects
• The infection process of COVID-19 was identified relatively 
early on. It was found that the virus binds to a particular 
protein on the surface of cells called ACE2. With AI, it was 
possible to look at the processes surrounding the entry of the 
virus and its replication, which allowed to look back a lot more 
at the literature that concerns different coronaviruses. 
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COVID-19 treatment
• The system suggested a number of compounds that could 
potentially have an effect on COVID-19 including, most 
promisingly, a drug called Baricitinib. The drug is already 
licensed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, it could potentially slow 
down the process of the virus being taken up into cells and 
reduce its ability to infect lung cells. 
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Google’s AI
• DeepMind, the AI arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, is 
using data on genomes to predict organisms' protein structure, 
potentially shedding light on which drugs could work against 
COVID-19. It has released a deep-learning library called 
AlphaFold, which uses neural networks to predict how the 
proteins that make up an organism curve or crinkle, based on 
their genome.
Mapping
• Artificial-intelligence systems were thought to be among the 
first to detect that the coronavirus outbreak, back when it was 
still localized to the Chinese city of Wuhan, could become a 
full-on global pandemic. It's thought that AI-driven Health 
Map, picked up the growing cluster of unexplained pneumonia 
cases shortly before human researchers
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Diagnosis of COVID-19 infection
• Canadian startup DarwinAI has developed a neural network 
that can screen X-rays for signs of COVID-19 infection. While 
using swabs from patients is the default for testing for 
coronavirus, analyzing chest X-rays could offer an alternative 
to hospitals that don't have enough staff or testing kits to 
process all their patients quickly.
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