Massive simulation shows HIV capsid interacting with its environment
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 05:02
in Biology & Nature
It took two years on a supercomputer to simulate 1.2 microseconds in the life of the HIV capsid, a protein cage that shuttles the HIV virus to the nucleus of a human cell. The 64-million-atom simulation offers new insights into how the virus senses its environment and completes its infective cycle.