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Thread: A member stated there were problems with this data |
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Former Member
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Can anyone tell me if there was a problem with the project? Thanks.
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Former Member
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The last we heard, WCG met with the researchers somewhere around August. No problems were raised that I know of.
The member claiming there are problems was impatient to get hold of the actual raw data, for some undefined reason. Analysis takes time. It's far too early to get worried. We're due some updates on the completed projects, though. We'll keep bugging them for you. |
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Former Member
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thanks for reply. actually i don't care if a project 'succeeds' or not.
 what counts in my mind is that the effort was made. it doesn't matter to me if there was no great result. i think some follow-up is still good, to find out if the project was properly set up for distributed computing, etc. and also just for curiousity about what happened. |
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Former Member
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Actually we meet with the researchers on a monthly basis and will continue to do so until we see some results. At a minimum they need to publish a paper and then make the results available on a public database for other researchers to leverage.
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Former Member
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Our contribution won't go into a waste. At least we get to know what works and what don't. We should be one step closer to the great discovery.
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Former Member
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I'm really not sure what the problem is.
Most of the projects hosted by World Community Grid use science and mathematics far beyond my comprehension. They need years of study just to fully understand the basics. Genome Comparison was different. As a CS graduate, I understand how the Smith-Waterman algorithm works (although I haven't really studied it in depth). So, I don't see any potential pitfalls ahead for the Genome Comparison team. For now (until we have better information) I'm happy to assume that the project simply has some minor technical difficulties in post-processing their data. |
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Sekerob
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everyone knows my friend in the realm of seeking information so no more naming them, but with their help found a pdf doc mentioning the project completion and what bioinformatics is ongoing at Fiocruz (and i don't understand smith-waterman either nor intend to).
----------------------------------------http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/98/108 Short excerpt: In addition, present research lines of the bioinformatics team include (i) functional classification and annotation of proteins, metabolic pathways, analogous enzymes, pseudogenes and repetitive sequences; (ii) modeling of biological data; (iii) developing of new algorithms for genome assembly and (iv) annotation of trypanosomatid and mycobacterial genes. Recently, the calculation stage of the Genome Comparison Project (Genome Comparison Project 2007), in which all protein coding genes from all completed genomes so far were compared in a pairwise manner, using the Smith-Waterman algorithm on the World Community Grid (World Community Grid, 2007), was finished. Results of these comparisons allow for the development of several studies in phylogeny and molecular evolution, and will soon be available for the whole scientific community.
WCG
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