Researchers have developed a computational model of a human lung cell which has been used to understand how SARS-CoV-2 the virus behind Covid-19 disease uses the host to survive and to enable drug predictions for treating the virus. Using a computer model of a human lung cell metabolism the study published in the journal Life Science Alliance have captured the stoichiometric amino and nucleic acid requirements of SARS-CoV-2. Their model has identified host-based metabolic perturbations inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 reproduction highlighting reactions in the central metabolism as well as amino acid and nucleotide biosynthesis pathways. In fact researchers found that only a
