COVID-19 Scientific community support 

Physics of Life are aware of the current need of the scientific community to come together to share resources, expertise, ideas and knowledge in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. In order to support this challenge, Physics of Life are open to meeting community needs and finding ways to support and develop teams as required.     

In the meantime, we would like to provide a sign posting service to collate all of the calls to action for the scientific community and useful resources. If you are aware of further links that we can advertise, please email [email protected], so that this page can be updated accordingly. 

UKRI

UKRI CEO Sir Mark Walport has also written an open letter to the research and innovation community regarding the COVID-19 situation: ​

Open letter from UKRI

For the UKRI open call for research and innovation ideas to address COVID-19, see: ​
https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/ukri-open-call-for-research-and-innovation-ideas-to-address-covid-19/ 

NIHR 

On behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care, the NIHR is funding and helping to deliver a range of “rapid response” research to better understand and tackle COVID-19, including research into vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests, and real-time collection of samples and data from people undergoing treatment in hospitals. We are doing this in close cooperation with Public Health England, UK Research & Innovation, the Health Research Authority and others.

MRC

COVID-19 Rapid Response Rolling Call:
https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/ukri-nihr-covid-19/ukri-nihr-covid-19-rolling-call/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

The Billion Molecules against COVID-19 JEDI grand challenge

The Joint European Disruptive Initiative is launching the Billion Molecules against COVID-19 Grand Challenge, with grand prizes of up to 2 million Euros for the winners.
See:
https://jedi.group/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JEDICovid19GrandChallengeENGRelease.pdf

MIT

MIT Solve is seeking tech innovations that can slow and track the spread of an emerging outbreak, for example by improving individual hygiene, developing low-cost rapid diagnostics, analyzing data that informs decision making, and providing tools that support and protect health workers.
https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/health-security-pandemics

Ongoing research, ways to contribute and accessible data

Biomolecular Modelling: 
http://www.hecbiosim.ac.uk/covid-19
General Data access: 
https://www.data-against-covid.org/
​https://www.kaggle.com/covid19
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/free-public-datasets-for-covid19​
Molecular designs: 
https://covid.postera.ai/covid
Genomic data: 
https://nextstrain.org/
Computational consortiums: 
https://www.compbiomed.eu
https://covid19-hpc-consortium.org/
​Online workshops and webinars: 
https://ellis.eu/covid-19
Covid sound data, requests for uploads: 
​http://www.covid-19-sounds.org/
Protein data bank:
https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/242
IBM have released a new data set to help researchers generate potential new drug candidates for COVID-19, they have applied novel AI generative frameworks to three COVID-19 targets and have generated ~3000 novel molecules. They are sharing these molecules under Creative Commons here:
https://covid-19-mol.mybluemix.net/
Covid-19 Data Portal:
https://www.covid19dataportal.org
Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences (VKEMS): https://www.icms.org.uk/VFM2020.php
Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP): https://epcced.github.io/ramp/
RAMP has a sister project DELVE focused on data analytics: https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/04/royal-society-convenes-data-analytics-group-to-tackle-covid-19/
Open Access database to map the UK preclinical drug discovery landscape and boost collaboration & knowledge sharing: https://covidpipeline.acmedsci.ac.uk
Useful articles: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-020-0175-7