An immersive journey to the molecular structure of SARS-CoV-2: Virtual Re‐ ality in COVID-19
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2020Author
Calvelo, Martín
Piñeiro, Ángel
Garcia-Fandino, Rebeca
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The era of the explosion of immersive technologies has bumped head-on with the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome–
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The proper understanding of the three-dimensional structures
that compose the virus, as well as of those involved in the infection process and in treatments,
is expected to contribute to the advance of fundamental and applied research against this
pandemic, including basic molecular biology studies and drug design. Virtual reality (VR) is a
powerful technology to visualize the biomolecular structures that are currently being identified
for SARS-CoV-2 infection, opening possibilities to significant advances in the understanding of the disease-associate mechanisms and thus to boost new therapies and treatments. The
present availability of VR for a large variety of practical applications together with the
increasingly easiness, quality and economic access of this technology is transforming the way
we interact with digital information. Here, we review the software implementations currently
available for VR visualization of SARS-CoV-2 molecular structures, covering a range of
virtual environments: CAVEs, desktop software, and cell phone applications, all of them
combined with head-mounted devices like cardboards, Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive. We aim
to impulse and facilitate the use of these emerging technologies in research against COVID-19
trying to increase the knowledge and thus minimizing risks before placing huge amounts of
money for the development of potential treatments.
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Virtual reality; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Proteins; Drug-designLink to resource
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