The initiative includes Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for AI founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, set up by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.

The entire database will be updated on a weekly basis, adding new research from peer-reviewed journals and other archival services. In order to motivate researchers to take the challenge head-on, Kaggle is hosting the Covid-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19).

All hands on deckThe actual papers are provided by the National Institute of Healths National Library of Medicine. Its also linked to the World Health Organisations (WHO) database of publications on coronavirus. The project is being coordinated by Georgetown Universitys Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).

Even though the database was requested by the White Houses Office of Science and Technology Policy anyone from around the world harness the information to make their own deductions.

With this step, weve made available full-text, machine-readable resources to help speed response to this global crisis, said Dewey Murdick, CSETs director of data science.

Another tech company called Fold@Home is distributing a computing project online that helps users and contributors conduct research on Covid-19 by simulating molecular dynamics. Researchers can simulate processes like protein folding and drug design to understand how the coronavirus would react.

As of today, there are over 165,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus worldwide across 146 countries with 126 people infected in India.

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