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Pandemic drugs at pandemic speed: infrastructure for accelerating COVID-19 drug discovery with hybrid machine learning- and physics-based simulations on high-performance computers

Agastya P. Bhati, Shunzhou Wan, Dario Alfè, Austin R. Clyde, Mathis Bode, Li Tan, Mikhail Titov, Andre Merzky, Matteo Turilli, Shantenu Jha, Roger R. Highfield, Walter Rocchia (+17 others)
2021 Interface Focus  

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The race to meet the challenges of the global pandemic has served as a reminder that the existing drug discovery process is expensive, inefficient and slow. There is a major bottleneck screening the vast number of potential small molecules to shortlist lead compounds for antiviral drug development. New opportunities to accelerate drug discovery lie at the interface between machine learning methods, in this case, developed for linear accelerators, and physics-based methods. The two in silico
more » ... ods, each have their own advantages and limitations which, interestingly, complement each other. Here, we present an innovative infrastructural development that combines both approaches to accelerate drug discovery. The scale of the potential resulting workflow is such that it is dependent on supercomputing to achieve extremely high throughput. We have demonstrated the viability of this workflow for the study of inhibitors for four COVID-19 target proteins and our ability to perform the required large-scale calculations to identify lead antiviral compounds through repurposing on a variety of supercomputers.
doi:10.1098/rsfs.2021.0018 pmid:34956592 pmcid:PMC8504892 fatcat:rvalq6bwkfcmfapzwnowova6se
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Agastya P. Bhati, Shunzhou Wan, Dario Alfè, Austin R. Clyde, Mathis Bode, Li Tan, Mikhail Titov, Andre Merzky, Matteo Turilli, Shantenu Jha, Roger R. Highfield, Walter Rocchia, Nicola Scafuri, Sauro Succi, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Gerald Mathias, David Wifling, Yann Donon, Alberto Di Meglio, Sofia Vallecorsa, Heng Ma, Anda Trifan, Arvind Ramanathan, Tom Brettin, Alexander Partin, Fangfang Xia, Xiaotan Duan, Rick Stevens, Peter V. Coveney. "Pandemic drugs at pandemic speed: infrastructure for accelerating COVID-19 drug discovery with hybrid machine learning- and physics-based simulations on high-performance computers." Interface Focus 11.6 (2021) 20210018