
Why not use World of Warcraft as a testing environment? It worked pretty well before...
Deadly diseases like Ebola are frightening. They kill people in horrible ways and destroy the host communities’ ability to fight the spread of the virus. Agencies fighting the outbreak have had to understand where the outbreak is spreading, where communities in its path are most vulnerable and where to focus their treatment and …
Why not use World of Warcraft as a testing environment? It worked pretty well before...
In that case, you'd probably be interested in the "Outsmart Ebola Together" project running on BOINC's World Community Grid project. A number of the WCG projects are exactly what you're suggesting, molecular simulations to find drugs that inhibit the function of a pathogen. BOINC projects are, of course, heavy on distributed computing and so not as useful for fast response projects like the one described in the article.