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Bioinformatics and Systems Biology for COVID-19
00:00 - 02:32 (02:32)
Professor Dimitris Agrafiotis discusses how computational methods can help us understand the biology of COVID-19 and other viruses in order to develop antiviral drugs and vaccines.
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In this podcast, host Lex Fridman talks with Dimitris Agrafiotis, a professor at WPI, about the intersection of bioinformatics, genomics, and computational biology, with a focus on understanding how computational methods can help develop antiviral drugs and vaccines.
00:00 - 02:32 (02:32)
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, Antiviral Drugs, Vaccines
Summary
In this podcast, host Lex Fridman talks with Dimitris Agrafiotis, a professor at WPI, about the intersection of bioinformatics, genomics, and computational biology, with a focus on understanding how computational methods can help develop antiviral drugs and vaccines. The discussion also covers Dimitris' work on reconstructing the 3D structure of COVID-19's major viral proteins using computational modeling.