Deep learning and statistical sequence modeling algorithms became the unsung infrastructure of the global pandemic response. Machine learning frameworks were deployed to model the SARS-CoV-2 virus spikes and screen thousands of existing drugs for potential treatments, heavily optimizing the design of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine sequence in just two days.
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