2020/05/12
Keio University
The Systems Biology Institute
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
Researchers from around the world, including Associate Professor Akiya Funahashi of the Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University; Professor Hiroaki Kitano of the Systems Biology Institute (SBI) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST); and Dr. Marek Ostaszewski, Professor Rudi Balling, and Professor Reinhard Schneider of the University of Luxembourg, have joined forces to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, a current global threat, by building a comprehensive, computational model of the molecular processes of virus-host interactions. This group, consisting of 163 members from 81 institutions in 29 countries, has announced the COVID-19 Disease Map (doi:10.17881/covid19-disease-map), a repository of comprehensive and standardized knowledge on the mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interactions. The COVID-19 Disease Map serves as a platform for visually exploring and computationally analyzing the molecular processes involved in the entry and replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, host-pathogen interactions, as well as the immune response, host cell recovery, and repair mechanisms.
The results of this research were published on the website of the academic journal Scientific Data on May 5 (UK time).
Please see below for the full press release.