Technology New Program to help research proteins

[Jmuhnie]

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Similar to SETI@home a new program has been developed to help researchers analyze protein folding. Users can run the program in the background or as a screen saver when they are not around so that their extra computer time can be used to solve protein folding problems. I think it is a cool way to speed up the discovery of protein interactions and purposes. The link for the site is World Community Grid . I've started a team that I hope some other SDN'ers will joing. My team is called the Protein Crusaders. Save the world...join today 😀

 

[stoic]

i think some of the other sdn'ers have started an sdn team.

i'll link to it if i run into it again.

 

[Stroganoff]

Nice, it's good to see IBM taking off some of the server load from United Devices' grid.org. It's the exact same project, but UD gives you the option of running a cancer project as well. I made a thread in the Lounge for this, but I wish the Protein Crusaders best of luck!

 

[Jmuhnie]

hehe, thanks for the luck...I didn't know about the United Devices until the launch of the WCG. I was just trying to get everyone involved. It is the little things like this that may actually make a difference...and when the government isn't increasing research funding very much...this is one contribution that most of us can make.

 

[dnelsen]

I joined this program (through united devices) but I think I'm starting to regret it. I just did a search and found Folding@Home and found that it is run by Stanford University and is non-profit. I did a little digging on united devices and they are for profit and it seems they primarily want to sell our cpu cycles to companies for $$. Philanthropy seems to be somewhat of an afterthought.

Can anyone else comment on this?