Specialists in structure-assisted drug design working on COVID-19 have received a new tool that will help them better understand coronavirus and guarantee the correctness of the structural models on which their work is based.

Professor Mariusz Jaskólski from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences with an international team of structural biologists undertook the verification of coronavirus protein structures – structures of primary importance for the creation of anti-COVID-19 drugs.

As a result of their work, scientists from Poland, Austria and the United States created an internet tool that gives researchers an easy view of progress in this field and an accessible presentation of the quality assessment of individual coronavirus protein models, and in special cases it can correct detected shortcomings and errors.
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