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Modelling the spread of coronavirus in the lungs

Simplifying Complexity

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Computational Biology and the Evolution of Coronavirus

In the early spring of 2020, scientists saw this emerging pathogen and wondered what we could do to help understand what it's doing. We built a model called Simcove, which is a spatial immune model of coronavirus. And our goal was to model not directly the epidemic spread between people but to model how the virus spreads within a host.

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