World Community Grid |
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
Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy
- Sophie Sacquin-Mora1, Alessandra Carbone, and Richard Lavery. Identification of Protein Interaction Partners and Protein–Protein Interaction Sites Journal of Molecular Biology, 2008 Aug 7.
- V. Bertsis, R. Bolze, F. Desprez, K. Reed. Large Scale Execution of a Bioinformatic Application on a Volunteer Grid. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC), In conjunction with IPDPS 2008, Miami, Florida, April, 2008.
FightAIDS@Home
- Max W. Chang, William Lindstrom, Arthur J. Olson, and Richard K. Belew . Analysis of HIV Wild-Type and Mutant Structures via in Silico Docking against Diverse Ligand Libraries. J. Chem. Inf. Model., 47 (3), 1258 -1262, 2007.
Human Proteome Folding - Phase I
- Lars Malmström, Michael Riffle, Charlie E. M. Strauss, Dylan Chivian, Trisha N. Davis, Richard Bonneau, David Baker. Superfamily Assignments for the Yeast Proteome through Integration of Structure Prediction with the Gene Ontology. PLoS Biol 5(4).
Help Defeat Cancer
- Lin Yang, Wenjin Chen, Peter Meer1, Gratian Salaru, Michael D. Feldman, and David J. Foran High Throughput Analysis of Breast Cancer Specimens on the Grid. Proceedings on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. (MICCAI) Brisbane, Australia. October, 2007.
Help Conquer Cancer
- C.A. Cumbaa & I. Jurisica, Scale Changes Everything – Crystallography Image Analysis on the World Community Grid. 22nd High Performance Computing Symposium - Québec City, CA. June, 2008
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.)]
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