Computational investigation for identification of potential phytochemicals and antiviral drugs as potential inhibitors for RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Since the SARS/MERS epidemic, scientists across the world have been racing to identify the novel-CoVs as it has been predicted that next epidemic can very well be a result from a new mutation of CoV, for which hundred mutations have already been discovered, and the same fear has come true with world facing a raging pandemic due to COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. COVID-19 or Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a single stranded RNA virus. COVID -19 is highly contagious and has resulted in current global pandemic with almost no country of the world unaffected by this virus. Owing to the lack of effective therapeutics or vaccines, the best measures to control human coronaviruses remain a strong public health surveillance sy

SUBMITTER: Singh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7684842 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature