Dommer, Abigail and Casalino, Lorenzo and Kearns, Fiona and Rosenfeld, Mia and Wauer, Nicholas and Ahn, Surl-Hee and Russo, John and Oliveira, Sofia and Morris, Clare and Bogetti, Anthony and Trifan, Anda and Brace, Alexander and Sztain, Terra and Clyde, Austin and Ma, Heng and Chennubhotla, Chakra and Lee, Hyungro and Turilli, Matteo and Khalid, Syma and Tamayo-Mendoza, Teresa and Welborn, Matthew and Christensen, Anders S. and Smith, Daniel G. A. and Qiao, Zhuoran and Sirumalla, Sai K. and O'Connor, Michael and Manby, Frederick and Anandkumar, Anima and Hardy, David and Phillips, James and Stern, Abraham and Romero, Josh and Clark, David and Dorrell, Mitchell and Maiden, Tom and Huang, Lei and McCalpin, John and Woods, Christopher and Gray, Alan and Williams, Matt and Barker, Bryan and Rajapaksha, Harinda and Pitts, Richard and Gibbs, Tom and Stone, John and Zuckerman, Daniel M. and Mulholland, Adrian J. and Miller, Thomas F., III and Jha, Shantenu and Ramanathan, Arvind and Chong, Lillian and Amaro, Rommie E. (2023) #COVIDisAirborne: AI-enabled multiscale computational microscopy of delta SARS-CoV-2 in a respiratory aerosol. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 37 (1). pp. 28-44. ISSN 1094-3420. PMCID PMC9527558. doi:10.1177/10943420221128233. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20221017-15547800.39
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We seek to completely revise current models of airborne transmission of respiratory viruses by providing never-before-seen atomic-level views of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within a respiratory aerosol. Our work dramatically extends the capabilities of multiscale computational microscopy to address the significant gaps that exist in current experimental methods, which are limited in their ability to interrogate aerosols at the atomic/molecular level and thus obscure our understanding of airborne transmission. We demonstrate how our integrated data-driven platform provides a new way of exploring the composition, structure, and dynamics of aerosols and aerosolized viruses, while driving simulation method development along several important axes. We present a series of initial scientific discoveries for the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, noting that the full scientific impact of this work has yet to be realized.
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