Research

Computer Sciences and Information Technology

Title :

COVID Explorer

Area of research :

COVID-19 Research, Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences

Focus area :

AI based platform

Principal Investigator :

Mayank Singh, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar

Timeline Start Year :

2020

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Executive Summary :

COVIDExplorer is an AI-based search and visualization platform to understand COVID-19 research papers. It helps in searching relevant research papers using biomedical terms like genes, proteins, RNAs, DNAs, Diseases, Molecular Formulae, etc. It presents details of India-specific infections, recovery, and death counts. It also displays the COVID-19 specific Twitter discussions, fact/myths in posts, and tries to automatically identify misinformed social-media messages.

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