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IBM Opens Up Informatics Toolkit to Accelerate COVID-19 Research, Drug Development

Apr 16, 2020
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Neil Versel

CHICAGO – Add IBM to the growing list of companies developing new information technology to expedite research into the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in hopes of finding treatments for COVID-19.

IBM Research said that it has been "actively developing" new cloud and artificial intelligence-based technologies to help researchers accelerate drug discovery and treatment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In collaboration with IBM Watson Health, the company has announced the free availability of a series of informatics tools in pursuit of answers.

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