AI-Powered Virus Discovery: Alibaba Cloud and Sun Yat-sen University Collaborate to Discover 180 Novel RNA Virus Clades

AI-Powered Virus Discovery: Alibaba Cloud and Sun Yat-sen University Collaborate to Discover 180 Novel RNA Virus Clades

AI-Powered Virus Discovery: Alibaba Cloud and Sun Yat-sen University Collaborate to Discover 180 Novel RNA Virus CladesA research collaboration between Sun Yat-sen University and Alibaba Cloud, published recently in the prestigious journal Cell, has leveraged cloud computing and AI to uncover 180 novel clades and over 160,000 new RNA viruses, a nearly 30-fold increase in known virus species. This discovery significantly advances our understanding of RNA virus diversity and evolutionary history...