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We are actually expanding a lot of human genes, prioritizing them according to the scientists' interests. Among them this one (ACE2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/59272 which is closely related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Don't expect we will be able to 'find a cure' but we are trying to add something to better know our enemy.
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We are actually expanding a lot of human genes, prioritizing them according to the scientists' interests. Among them this one (ACE2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/59272 which is closely related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Don't expect we will be able to 'find a cure' but we are trying to add something to better know our enemy.
How about expanding the 400 proteins involved in SARS-CoV-2 processing and replication???
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/coronavirus-treatment.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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How about expanding the 400 proteins involved in SARS-CoV-2 processing and replication???
That is a great article. If expanding the 400 proteins would do them any good, I am all for it and can put more machines on it. (The experts will have to decide if it is relevant.)
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We just added some other genes related to ACE2, according to this https://string-db.org/cgi/network.pl?taskId=fBQjTFzroyIX
They are AGT AGTR1 AGTR2 REN MME DPP4 PRCP MEP1B MEP1A XPNPEP2, among them we already expanded MME and DPP4. You may see the others' names coded inside the workunits string.
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We are actually expanding a lot of human genes, prioritizing them according to the scientists' interests. Among them this one (ACE2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/59272 which is closely related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Don't expect we will be able to 'find a cure' but we are trying to add something to better know our enemy.
How about expanding the 400 proteins involved in SARS-CoV-2 processing and replication???
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/coronavirus-treatment.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Interesting stuff, I will send the information to my colleagues (BTW we already did the expansion of BRD2, cited in the article, in the past).
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Added a few genes, related to DPP4, according to StringDB:
INS GIP SLC5A2 SLC5A5 ADA GCG GLP1R
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Thanks for the update, got a few INS workunits.
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I just put into the queue all the genes related to SARS-CoV-2 according to this paper https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.002386v3
The data we used are available here https://public.ndexbio.org/#/networkset/4b4a9769-6ad1-11ea-bfdc-0ac135e8bacf?accesskey=abb250cd4e341423f3e913d71c171068c75c722e54649a83868feff7f239a548
Description: Interactomes for SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) the virus causing COVID-19. Interactomes have been performed in multiple cell lines, including HEK-293T, and a lung cell line, A549.
Workunit's id will start at 165735_Hs to 166977_Hs, that's the expansion of 1242 gene isoforms, each one will be 294 workunits, so there is plenty of work to do...
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Thanks for the precious update
So, for the end, how many wus will be related to COVID-19?
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Thanks for the precious update
So, for the end, how many wus will be related to COVID-19?
1242(genes) *294(wu) *2(copies) = 730296 wu
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Thanks for the precious update
So, for the end, how many wus will be related to COVID-19?
1242(genes) *294(wu) *2(copies) = 730296 wu
Grazie!
All'attacco!! Let's squeeze all cpu's cores!!
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Got some of those new SARS-CoV-2 WU's already.
Thanks for the update.
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Arte these available for RaspberryPi?
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Arte these available for RaspberryPi?
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We have applications for ARM based devices. It should work, just try.
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Arte these available for RaspberryPi?
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We have applications for ARM based devices. It should work, just try.
I'll keep on going with my little Pi 2 :D.
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This is really a great news!
Nonetheless it makes me raise a question... As far as I understood of this project (the science behind is a bit difficult for the non-scientists) I know that one of your main goal is to publish the "OneGeneE" database, where you are going to provide to the researchers with all the gene networks expansions we are computing.
Now, I assume that you are going to publish this database after the computation of all the queued genes for the Homo Sapiens research. This, according to the "science status" page, will require 3,37 years from now. This can be ok if we consider a "normal" basic research with a large possible timespan. Things are different if we are talking about knowing more of the pandemic that is struggling the world now: it is evident that science needs all the results as soon as possible, in terms of months.
So I was wondering, could it be possible that you publish the OneGeneE database just after we finish the computation of the SARS-CoV-2 related genes? In this way researches from all over the world could benefit immediately from the great job you do in Trento and perhaps speeding up the search for a cure. After all, at the actual pace, the computation on the 1242 genes you inserted would require only 24 days!
Is this possible? Or must the computation go through other steps before the publication? In particular I've read somewhere on this site about another software you have to run after boinc's results plus lab tests that of course require time and work of human beings. Is this the case also for the publication of the database?
Thank you for answering my doubts and thank you for your job.
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We already published the OneGenE (expansion of all the genes) results for a Vitis vinifera dataset (Vespucci).
The OneGeneE project for Homo sapiens FANTOM-5 gene expression dataset is our 'background' job, and it is a very long one. We normally put genes in the queue in alphabetic order (actually it is by 'number of isoforms', but it would be the same). At the very beginning we started by prioritizing genes related to neurovegetative diseases, then to some types of cancer, right now any gene possibly related to COVID-19 (you guess why...).
Any result we get is immediately available to the scientific community (biologists etc.), for example the ACE2 expansions we completed a few days ago will soon be analyzed by a immunologist, etc.
We are also studying the possibility of doing some work on specific gene datasets recently made up from cells of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals. In this case we will put 'on hold' the OneGenE Hs project.
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This is a very interesting answer, thank you!
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This project is quite good at keeping volunteers updated.
Keep it up!
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Any result we get is immediately available to the scientific community (biologists etc.), for example the ACE2 expansions we completed a few days ago will soon be analyzed by a immunologist, etc.
We are also studying the possibility of doing some work on specific gene datasets recently made up from cells of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals. In this case we will put 'on hold' the OneGenE Hs project.
Outstanding!!! Are these Covid-19 patients from a specific cohort??? E.g., the hyperimmune, deceased, etc.
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