Those pointers don`t really tell us anything about the status of the project.

It would already be interesting to see the ratio of handled proteom jobs against unhandled ones (even if the ratio constantly changes because new jobs are created). It can be used to measure the acceleration of the project, and what would be needed to complete it in x amount of time.

Such status information could encourage people to join up to accelerate the computation efforts even more.

Another question I have is why reoprts and results of this research are donated to the US Defence, as described on the ISB website. Why aren`t they donated to the United Nations? This is, after all, a multi-national effort. I sincerely hope I`m not helping the US Defence, because I get some seriously bad feeling about doing medical research for them.

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I think that Lawrence Harding provided the best information available about project progress at this time when he said, "We need to get some more information from the Institute for Systems Biology before we can start discussing this matter intelligently." If you review the forums, you will see that this has been the topic of several inquiries.

There is nothing on the Institute of Systems Biology website that would lead one to think that the results of the project are donated to the United States Department of Defense. This has been discussed in several threads in these forums. This mistaken view appears to have come about because the computer sharing technology being used on the World Community Grid was developed by United Devices. Another organization, Grid.org, also uses this technology. they sponsored a now completed project on smallpox which had, among several other research partners including IBM, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. That was a different project and a different organization.

Hey all :D Thanks for reacting so swiftly!

Concerning the batches. Even if it is per batch, it could still be interesting to see some kind of progress bar, and a 'finished batches' counter, to see what has been done, and how fast it goes. Of course without a real oversight on how many batches will come that still doesn't tell us mich on overall project progress..

It would be nice to know if the number of batches that the admins had to supply had to speed up considerably given that the number of returned results also drastically climbed in the past week.

Concerning the misinterpretation from my part, you're right, I probably mix things up. Grid.org has been the portal through which I visit WCG. It's easier to remember and shorter to type. So I fell through some links and saw that results were being presented to the US DOD. It's not allways easy to see who's responsible for what exactly, but I think I get it now. Thanks for clearing things up!! :):)

Dear All,

while I appreciate your desire to get progress reports - we are all interested - I believe the dedicated Rick Alter said it best on another thread:



--Lilac