Computer model of a virus

Researchers announced on Tuesday that they created a computer simulation of a virus, claiming to have built the first complete model of any entire life-form.

Although the notion of a “computer virus” usually conjures up concerns about data security, the scientists say their development will contribute to improvements in public health as well as the development of technologies such as artificial nanomachines.

Details of the work by crystallographers at the University of California at Irvine and computational biologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be published in the March issue of the science journal Structure.

This is pretty darn cool. A virus modeled with a computer simulation. I look forward to reading more about it.