Crowdsourcing solutions to better understand molecular structures of COVID-19 (Rhiju Das, Howard Chang)

The Chang and Das labs are engaging participants of the online-gaming platform Eterna to understand how the RNA genome of SARS-CoV-2 virus might change during the pandemic. Eterna educates and enables its players to “be the virus,” simulating how it shifts its sequence over time to evade diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines being developed to fight COVID-19. The project seeks to provide RNA-structure-informed predictions and analyses that are not available through other computational efforts, while engaging and educating millions of citizens worldwide through compelling puzzles. Stanford Office of Technology Licensing info@otlmail.stanford.edu. 650-723-0651