Forkwell Coronavirus Hack: Drug Discovery

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About

Welcome to Forkwell Coronavirus Hack!

This repository contains the hackathon kit for you to get started on solving topic 1: Drug Discovery and eventually a place where you host all your submission artifacts as your own fork.

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Background

A few studies have shown that HIV antivirals offer promising results, but this is still an open field of discovery.

Finding a new drug or validating an existing drug are both suitable approaches.

Goal

Find a candidate drug (ligand) with a high binding affinity with the COVID-19 main protease.

1. Use machine learning to identify a potential candidate, then use docking software to get the binding affinity between it and the main protease.
2. Write a report that describes your process and results in detail in the form of a jupyter notebook.

Submission

You are required to submit a 15-minute presentation video of your report. However, to ensure the legitimacy of your submission, you are required to submit your project artifacts (code, datasets, documents) as a fork to this repository.

A submission form will be available on the 14th of April 2020 for submission, please join our facebook group and discord channel to keep updated with latest changes.

After creating your own fork of this repository, clone the repository:

git clone [email protected]:<your-github-username>/fch-drug-discovery

Change to the directory:

cd fch-drug-discovery

Set upstream:

git remote add upstream [email protected]:forkwell-io/fch-drug-discovery

...and start Hacking!!

Once you are ready to submit, create a pull request from your fork to us and include the link to your fork in your submission form that will be available on the 14th of April 2020.

Please remember that your code will be publicly available, open-sourced licesed and free for the internet to use. Please ensure that you don't commit any sensitive information!

Resources

Presentations

Virus Primer - Target a Virus

Thomas MacDougall - Graduate Student in Computer Science at the University of Montreal

slides

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Databases

Name	Link
CMap	https://clue.io/cmap
COVID-19 main protease	https://www.wwpdb.org/pdb?id=pdb_00006lu7
ChemBL	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/
DrugBank	https://www.drugbank.ca/
Folding@Home	https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus
Formatted ZINC Database	https://github.com/molecularsets/moses
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Viral Infections	https://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/Harmonizome/dataset/GEO+Signatures+of+Differentially+Expressed+Genes+for+Viral+Infections
NextStrain	https://nextstrain.org/
ZINC Database	https://zinc.docking.org/
Dataset Search	https://blog-google.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/blog.google/products/search/discovering-millions-datasets-web/amp/

APIs

Name	Link
CoronaTracker API	https://api.coronatracker.com
COVID-19 Postman API	https://covid-19-apis.postman.com/
COVID-19 Rapid API	https://rapidapi.com/api-sports/api/covid-193?endpoint=apiendpoint_dfb9e52d-bd90-48ec-a571-8b78610a736d

Docking Tools

Name	Link
AutoDock VINA	http://vina.scripps.edu/
PyRX	https://pyrx.sourceforge.io/

Deep Reinforcement Learning Networks

Name	Link
DrugEx	https://github.com/XuhanLiu/DrugEx
GENTRL	https://github.com/insilicomedicine/GENTRL
ReLeaSE	https://github.com/isayev/ReLeaSE

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Deployment

• DigitalOcean

E-learning

• Microsoft Learn

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