Articles by Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Gado Images, a digital image processing and artificial intelligence consultancy.

A Supercomputer Analyzed COVID-19 – and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged

A closer look at the bradykinin hypothesis

elocal Digital Edition • September 2020 • Health

by Thomas Smith

Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand COVID-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but the process – which involved analyzing 2.5 billion genetic combinations – still took more than a week. When Summit was done, researchers analyzed the results. It was, in the words of…

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