In fighting 2019-ncov (COVID-19) pandemic, through a series of technical support, finech such as cloud computing have demonstrated strong capabilities and added more imagination to future practical applications.
In the era of digital economy,
fighting 2019-ncov pandemic, big data,
cloud computing and other technological means are also playing a role.
Recently, many cloud technology service companies have solved the problems of instant approval of medical supplies and the smooth acquisition of a large number of computing resources behind related drug research and development through the free opening of SaaS systems and cloud computing technologies.
Through a series of technical support, fintech, such as cloud computing, has demonstrated strong capabilities, and also added more imagination to future practical applications. Recently, Frost Sullivan's "2019Q3 China Public Cloud Report" shows that in 2019 China's public cloud Q3 market reached 19.71 billion yuan, an increase of 64.3% year-on-year. The report predicts that the market size of China's public cloud is expected to reach 525.65 billion yuan in 2023. The report also mentioned that as an important partner in the digital transformation of enterprises, cloud computing companies that have both Internet advantage business and deep experience in traditional enterprises can superimpose the potential of traditional business upgrades and emerging technologies, showing good performance in the market. Development potential.
Improve material management efficiency
In fact, after the advent of
the 2019-ncov (COVID-19) pandemic, the issue of medical supplies scheduling has been receiving attention.
In order to collect and distribute the medical material needs of various medical institutions in time, the Health and Health Commission of Xiantao City, Hubei Province initially used WeChat groups to report to each hospital an Excel form. After summarization, they were allotted according to the stock of materials. Signing approval.
However,
fighting 2019-ncov (COVID-19) pandemic race against time, medical prevention and control and material guarantee need to race against time.
In response to the urgent needs of the Health and Health Committee of Xiantao City, Hubei Province, Jinshan Cloud spontaneously established the “
Combat nCoV” project team, and the “emergency material management system” delivered focused on solving the efficiency and timeliness of reporting, deployment, and approval of emergency materials.
It is understood that this system uses a cloud computing architecture and provides a "Jinshan Cloud HIS" WeChat public account as a user entrance. Hospital users report the material needs and consumption through the WeChat public account entrance. The system will automatically summarize the reported data in the cloud. The health and safety committee material administrator logs in to the system through a computer or mobile phone to view the reported summary. For those who have not reported in time Hospitals, automatically push WeChat notifications to remind hospitals to report.
At the same time, according to the material needs and inventory conditions of each hospital, the warehouse administrator will formulate a material allocation table through the system and submit it to the supervisor for review. The supervisor will receive a notification of the review message on WeChat and click the message notification for approval. After approval, it will push the receipt message to the dispensed hospital for timely pickup or receipt.
In addition, the system will automatically generate a material inventory table for the health and health commission, which facilitates operations such as purchasing insufficient materials, applying for higher-level transfers, and raising donations. For the received social donations, purchases and materials allocated by superiors, the system's material storage function is used to increase inventory.
As a result, the emergency command and hospitals have greatly reduced the work process time in material management. The approval process that previously took several hours to complete now only takes a few minutes. At present, in addition to the Xiantao in Hubei, the emergency material management system has also been applied in the health and health committee system of the whole province in Jiangsu Province. In addition, there are more than 300 institutional users in Shandong, Shaanxi and other provinces.
"Due to the lack of a suitable system, the problems of donation tracking, accurate distribution, and timely distribution are more serious. I hope that the SaaS system based on cloud computing technology developed this time can provide some help. After
2019-ncov (COVID-19) pandemic We will also consider combining the system with other businesses. "The above-mentioned person in charge said.
Supercomputing supports vaccine development
Supercomputing, as the "country of importance", can provide powerful computing power resources and professional technical support in drug research and development,
2019-ncov (COVID-19) pandemic screening, etc. At present, many domestic supercomputing centers are working to assist China CDC in the development of related vaccines.
万 He Wanqing, head of Alibaba Cloud's high-performance computing technology, told reporters that searching for virus targets for identification and verification in the pharmaceutical process, and matching suitable lead compounds in the database require a lot of calculations. At present, there are about 5,000 to 15,000 compounds available for making drugs. If they are all compared in the laboratory, it is too time-consuming.
Scientific research institutions generally do not have large-scale computing resources. The above work usually needs to be performed in the supercomputing center, but there are many types of projects that need to be calculated in the supercomputing center, which may not be able to provide the required computing resources quickly. In addition, many regions are currently under closed management, which makes it more difficult to obtain computing resources. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud has opened up computing resources to a large number of scientific research institutions and worked with the Supercomputing Center to accelerate the scientific research process of the new coronavirus.
In principle, drugs can exert their efficacy by interacting with biological targets in the body. If the screening and design of small molecule ligands can be calculated according to the structure of drug targets, the cost and cycle of early research and development of innovative drugs will be greatly reduced.
Aiming at multiple targets of the new coronavirus, the laboratory of Professor Huang Niu of Beijing Institute of Life Science and Tsinghua University Biomedical Cross-Institute passed the massive high-performance computing and storage resources delivered by Tencent Cloud Seconds to quickly screen hundreds of millions of compounds The database, combined with experimental verification, is to find new types of lead compounds to provide a basis for the next step of new drug research and development.
Baidu ’s open LinearFold algorithm (RNA secondary organization analysis tool) can reduce the whole genome secondary structure prediction of the new coronavirus from 55 minutes to 27 seconds, which is 120 times faster, saving two orders of magnitude of waiting time.
A relevant person in charge of Baidu told our reporter that RNA viruses, including coronaviruses, mutate very quickly. Many of these mutations are only changes in the RNA sequence (that is, the primary structure), but there are also some that may cause changes in the secondary structure. It will bring about changes in function and nature, which may be necessary for the cross-species variation of the virus. Application of LinearFold algorithm can speed up the analysis of changes in secondary structure between homologous RNA virus sequences (such as bats and humans), and thus may understand how viruses spread across species.
At the same time, cloud computing also found some areas that need to be improved in the process of supporting pharmaceutical research and development. He Wanqing told reporters, "We can see that overseas drug screening and pharmaceutical platforms have an interoperable mechanism in the public medical system. For example, if a unit detects an infection or progresses in drug screening, it will be displayed on one platform. However, China currently lacks such an information exchange system, leading to scientific research institutions 'operating on their own'. Some computing research work is repeated, which is a waste of time and efficiency, and these can now be improved through cloud computing platforms. . "
Alibaba Cloud researcher and head of innovation product line Zhang Xiantao also said that in addition to the
2019-ncov (COVID-19) pandemic, in the future in the case of other similar emergencies, how to ensure resource protection is worth thinking about, and Alibaba Cloud will also be in Summarize and refine in the process of continuous service demand.
In the future development, cloud-based integrated and easy-to-use AI service capabilities, as well as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and 5G technology integration capabilities will become a major competitive direction for service providers. The reporter learned that the industry generally believes that through
the 2019-ncov (COVID-19) pandemic, more applications of fintech have been discovered, which will also stimulate the rapid and healthy development of the industry in the long run. In the future, a smart world based on technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence may accelerate.
