PostEra: COVID MoonShot

Our project aims to deliver an antiviral drug candidate which is effective against COVID-19.\n \nPostEra and the members of Project Moonshot are leading experts in the fields of computational drug discovery, chemical synthesis and biochemical assays. In 2 months the team have already identified over 60 experimentally-confirmed ‘fragments’ that effectively target a key protein associated with COVID-19. We have opened a crowdsourcing initiative to expedite the process of designing potential drugs from those fragments. In 2 weeks we have already received more than 2000 submissions from the worldwide community to our open-source platform.\n\nPostEra uses its machine learning technology to screen these submissions to select the most promising candidates to be made and tested. We have received unprecedented support from the global scientific community -- receiving over 10x more submissions than our original estimates. Therefore, in order to select the most promising candidates using our algorithms, we would greatly value access to HPC power and deep learning inference servers.