Published on 14-Jun-2010
Validated on 05 Sep 2012
Customer:
IBM Corporation
Industry:
Healthcare, Life Sciences
Deployment country:
United States
Solution:
Smarter Planet
Overview
IBM collaborated with the Scripps Research Institute and several worldwide government and nonprofit health organizations to help work on developing a vaccine for avian flu by developing tools to assist in predicting the mutations the virus might take and develop vaccines targeted towards those mutations.
Business need:
Researchers need to devise a plan to help fight the spread of the Avian flu
Solution:
A solution was to develop a tools to predict the mututations the virus might cause and create the necessary vaccines for those specific mutations
Benefits:
If the plan works, it will help contain the virus and save millions of lives
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IBM collaborated with the Scripps Research Institute and several worldwide government and nonprofit health organizations to help work on developing a vaccine for avian flu by developing tools to assist in predicting the mutations the virus might take and develop vaccines targeted towards those mutations. |