Research investigates COVID-19 virus origin using artificial intelligence (AI) – IAM Network

The coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the globe with unprecedented speed and lethality, killing hundreds of thousands of people and forcing countries' entire populations to self-quarantine. The virus technically termed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is believed to be zoonotic, but its origin is still in doubt. A new paper reports the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the puzzle of the virus's origin. The paper was published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in May 2020. AI has been widely employed during the pandemic, with its uses ranging from rapid diagnostics to contact tracing to drug simulation.