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10-24-2002, 08:45 AM
|  | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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Article in today's Washington Post sent me to Nature. The next issue of Nature talks about Folding@home, GAH's sister (commercial) project. I am so proud of everyone who continues to dedicate time to this project. Remember that WE are the 29th highest ranked team in the WORLD and contributed 0.45% of all team output.
Article link: http://www.nature.com/nsu/021014/021014-14.html
Article excerpts: Now Pande, of Stanford University in California, his team and his volunteers have payback: the virtual folding of a protein, atom by atom
and The Folding@home project uses the collective power of many idle PCs to rival a supercomputer's might. The same distributed computing concept fuels the on-going search for extraterrestrial life, SETI@home.
Unlike aliens, protein folding "is not very sexy," admits Pande. Recruited via publicity in newspapers and websites, volunteers' interest was nurtured by setting up a competition for those donating the most computer time.
and This could help design drugs to fit, he says. He is already studying short proteins implicated in Alzheimer's. |
10-24-2002, 09:05 AM
|  | I'm Sparkly in Real Life | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: It's not heaven, it's Iowa
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Wow! Very cool. 
I'll say it again, the filter just sits there and does its crunching...we don't even know it's there.
Anyone who hasn't signed up - it's easy and you get a sense of helping humanity without doing a thing! Be a Genomer!!!
Lynn
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10-24-2002, 09:16 AM
|  | Mistress of Mayhem | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: New York
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10-24-2002, 09:39 AM
|  | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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I meant to sign up last weekend. I'll be joining the team soon! |
10-24-2002, 11:42 AM
|  | Usagi Yojimbo | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: The Birthplace of American Democracy
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I don't know why I waited so long and am glad to contribute. I've tried recruiting others, but no luck so far. Most of my homies are Mac users.
-JP |
12-17-2002, 11:47 PM
|  | Epinions Members | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Los Angeles
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I signed up and it is on my computer now. Never really knew what this was and just read about it the other day.
I sent an email out to one of my autism groups trying to get others interested. My sign up name - autismfamily.
Did anyone ever write a review on this - might be a way to generate interest or even to know this exists.
Bonnie |
12-17-2002, 11:55 PM
| | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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Welcome aboard, Bonnie!
There really isn't an appropriate category on Epinions for this yet that I've found (certainly not in Online), but good luck hunting around for one.
Crunch those genes! |
12-18-2002, 12:00 AM
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Gald ya made it!  |
04-14-2003, 08:34 AM
| | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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I lifted this straight from the Stanford site today (see the main thread about upgrading your client). I somehow don't think they'll mind sharing:
The scientific work for which this client was built has now been accomplished. The Genome@home worldwide protein design cluster has, to date, used almost 20,000 donated CPU-years to calculate over 6 million new protein sequences. The scientific work behind the G@h 0.99 client, consisting of nine distinct phases, has already resulted in four major scientific publications and produced novel insight into fundamental mysteries behind the protein structure-sequence relationship. The 0.99 client has also allowed us to pursue unprecedented work in studies of protein evolution and protein structure prediction. Much of our work in the short-term will include continued analysis, interpretation, and publication of the data that we've collected from the 0.99 client. |
04-14-2003, 09:05 AM
| | Mistress of Mayhem | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: New York
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Woohoo!
I didn't realize how brilliant we were. 
Sara
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04-14-2003, 09:14 AM
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How cool!
Lynn
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