Show HN: A peptide design tool for cancer vaccine Dear HNers, I have coded a tool that hopefully could help oncologists to design a peptide vaccine for personalized medicine. https://ift.tt/3dxXnkF Some peptides are specific to cancers. A peptide vaccine is a way to train our body to eradicate the cells that harbor these peptides on their outer membrane. Peptide vaccines are notoriously ineffective but safe, so they could be a second line of defense against cancer after traditional drugs and therapies. A tumor develops many mutations, over time. So there is no standard medical answer. A peptide vaccine will therefore be composed of a set of peptides, which may vary over time. Because peptide vaccines can be designed very quickly, they can help respond as soon as drug resistance develops. Peptide vaccines could be a way for oncologists to distinguish themselves from their colleagues in practice, and allow them to express their know-how. This service uses its own MHC prediction service in PHP (derived from PSSMHCpan). So it is faster than NetMHCPan, but alas, it is currently hosted on a cheap VPS so it cannot take much load. I wonder if you could suggest some business model for this kind of tool? Thanks! April 4, 2021 at 03:13AM
Show HN: Launch VM workloads securely and instantaneously, without VMs Hello HN! We've been working on a new hypervisor https://kwarantine.xyz that can run strongly isolated containers. This is still a WIP, but we wanted to give the community an idea about our approach, its benefits, and various use cases it unlocks. Today, VMs are used to host containers, and make up for the lack of strong security as well as kernel isolation in containers. This work adds this missing security piece in containers. We plan on launching a free private beta soon. Meanwhile, we'd deeply appreciate any feedback, and happy to answer any questions here or on our slack channel. Thanks! April 29, 2021 at 07:50AM
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