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Introduction
World Community Grid, sponsored by IBM, is a package of medical research projects. You can choose to join any combination:
Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together: Identifies promising drug leads to combat the related dengue, hepatitis C, West Nile, and Yellow fever viruses.
FightAIDS@Home: Uses computational methods to identify compounds that have characteristics necessary to block HIV protease, and thus potential for drug development.
Help Conquer Cancer: Improves the results of protein X-ray crystallography, which helps researchers not only annotate unknown parts of the human proteome, but importantly improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression and treatment.
Human Proteome Folding 2: Explores the limits of protein structure prediction, aiming to advance our understanding of these basic building blocks of life.
Nutritious Rice for the World: Helps farmers breed better rice strains with higher crop yields, greater disease and pest resistance, and a full range of bioavailable nutrients -- for the benefit people around the world, especially in regions where hunger is a critical concern.
The Clean Energy Project: Identifies organic materials which might enable a new generation of efficient and affordable solar energy technology.
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Videos
World Community Grid Report
World Community Grid Explained
Why People Join the World Community Grid
Science
[The Science section might (or might not) be divided into two parts: {1} general discussion of the field, and then {2} a discussion of the project's specific endeavor. For instance, in LHC@home, we might have {1} "Science of the Large Hardon Collider" and then {2} "Science of LHC@home"
The above is desirable, because in most cases, the field of research is really fascinating, and presenting this in broad terms-- outlining the big questions-- can make it easier to understand the particulars of the project and why it is important. ]
Results
[Where known, we should attempt to keep track of each project's publications. A good list to draw from is here. ]
Links of Interest
[Why recreate the wheel; there are lots of great sources out there.; a good list of sources can be really useful to the reader.]
World Community Grid In the Classroom
[For each project, please add a "[Projectname] in the Classroom" section-- with a link to Volunteer Computing In the Classroom and an article named "[Projectname] in the Classroom". (Then please add "[Projectname] in the Classroom" to the list on the main Education page.)]
Categories: Projects