On Jul. 9, 2020, Atos announced that the Biocomputing Unit at the Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), part of the Spanish National Research Council, had begun using Atosﾒ supercomputing resource to produce a refined 3D model of the SARS-Cov2 spike protein.

By knowing more detail about the structure of this protein, which is the one that the virus uses to enter human cells, researchers can better understand how the virus initiates infection. This important step forward may help in the development of a vaccine.