COVID-19 Datasets Bring AI Experts, Life Sciences Researchers Together For A Cure - AI Trends

All of the Bio-IT community is eager to contribute to plans for treatments, diagnostics and vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting disease, COVID-19. Companies are donating consulting services, compute resources, tools for clinical trials, and so much more. But the biggest donations might be the sheer volume of data being pooled for researchers to mine for answers. On March 16, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). The dataset, accessible through the Allen Institute for AI's Semantic Scholar platform, includes scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the coronavirus group.