{"id":16803,"date":"2020-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/covid-19-unprecedented-research-combining-genomics-and-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T04:00:00","slug":"covid-19-unprecedented-research-combining-genomics-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/covid-19-unprecedented-research-combining-genomics-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 &#8211; Unprecedented research combining genomics and artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to announce funding for a new research project intended to accelerate the discovery of antiviral COVID-19 medications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This project spearheaded by professors <strong>Michael\u00a0Tyers<\/strong> (IRIC\/Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al), <strong>Yoshua\u00a0Bengio<\/strong> (Mila\/Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al) and <strong>Anne\u00a0Marinier<\/strong> (IRIC\/Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al), the $1\u00a0million project combines genomics, artificial intelligence and medicinal chemistry to discover new inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By consolidating world-renowned expertise in genomics, artificial intelligence and medicinal chemistry, this project is placing Qu\u00e9bec and Canada at the cutting edge of research in precision medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/DATA\/COMMUNIQUE\/354_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to announce funding for a new research project intended to accelerate the discovery of antiviral COVID-19 medications.\u00a0 This project spearheaded by professors Michael\u00a0Tyers (IRIC\/Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}