Superlink@Technion

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Introduction
Superlink@Technion helps geneticists all over the world find genes causing hereditary diseases, such as some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others. More specifically, Superlink@Technion performs statistical analysis to compare large sets of real genetic data, in order to identify mutated disease-provoking genes. This statistical analysis is called "linkage analysis".

Geneticists submit data for the analysis via the Internet, by using the Superlink-online portal. The tasks are then automatically parallelized and invoked on many compute clusters, grids and volunteer computers via Superlink@Technion. This technology has already proved successful for finding various genetic diseases (more info).

This method is extremely powerful, but it is also extremely intensive computationally. With your help we can pursue more comprehensive analyses on an unprecedented scale, and hopefully allow for significant advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of disease

Contents
1 Videos 2 Science 3 Results 4 Links of Interest 5 Superlink@Technion In the Classroom

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Videos

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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. ]

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Results

[Where known, we should attempt to keep track of each project's publications. A good list to draw from is here. ]

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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.]

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