One of the world's most powerful supercomputers has conjured a fleeting moment in the life of a virus. The researchers say the simulation is the first to capture a whole biological organism in such intricate molecular detail.
The simulation pushes today's computing power to the limit. But it is only a first step. In future researchers hope that bigger, longer simulations will reveal details about how viruses invade cells and cause disease.
(Via KurzweilAI.net.)
It would be interesting if this followed an exponentiating trend. In a few years we might be doing mice; a few years after that, a human; ultimately, a society.
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