Fighting Against Coronavirus: What Does Cloud Computing Do?

In this fighting against coronavirus pneumonia, cloud computing has played a major role in virus research, drug development, and information dissemination.
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a proposal calling on AI-related units to give full play to the power of artificial intelligence, organize scientific research and production forces, and prioritize the research and application of related products that effectively support the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic prevention and control. The proposal proposes that artificial intelligence be used as soon as possible to supplement the shortcomings of epidemic control technology to quickly promote industrial production and application services; optimize AI algorithms and computing power, and assist in the development of drugs such as viral gene sequencing, vaccine and drug development, and protein screening.
Alibaba leverages the strengths of cloud computing to actively contribute to the prevention and control of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic. Alibaba Cloud announced that all AI computing power required for the development of viral vaccines and new drugs will be free of charge to public scientific institutions during the epidemic. At present, the AI AI algorithm has helped diagnose patients with new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pneumonia. Zhejiang launched an automated whole-genome detection and analysis platform, which was jointly developed by the Zhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the medical AI team of Ali Dharma Hospital, and Jieyi Biotechnology Co., Ltd., greatly improving the speed and accuracy of diagnosis, and will take hours of suspected cases The genetic analysis process is shortened to half an hour. In addition, this platform can detect possible virus mutations and provide support for subsequent vaccine and drug development.