These cookies do not store any personal information. Necessary cookies enable the core functionality of the website, including security, network management and accessibility. “We’re confident that our data and visual models could provide the guidance for experimental scientists worldwide who are working feverishly to solve this pandemic,” said Professor Dmitry Korkin, director of the WPI’s bioinformatics and computational biology programme. The model was cross-referenced with structures provided by Korkinlab and visual references from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), US. The researchers also say that the inner structures of SARS-CoV-2 are currently being sourced and incorporated into a new visualisation. The membrane lipid itself was generated using a particle system to produce a random and organic result. The creators said that the distribution of these proteins on the surface of the COVID-19 coronavirus was aligned by a random algorithm and the overall representation surface protein density has been reduced to help show the S, E and M proteins. The team highlight that the M protein shown is complexed with HLA-A *02 (human leukocyte antigen serotype). Membrane (M) protein (PDB code – 3I6G).The developers of the model explain that the components they used are:
