Technology Review has a new article about the Human Proteome Folding Project at
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/wo/wo_hoffman020105.asp?p=1 . It says that the project is creating a database of ‘upwards’ of a hundred thousand protein structures at low resolution. Dr. Rich Bonneau at ISB says that he hopes that after they have looked it over, they will be able to do a Phase II on selected proteins to diagram their structure in high resolution, down to the atomic level. The article was published at the beginning of February 2005. Dr. Bonneau hoped to have the database populated in another 6 months. He said that the computing would have taken 50 years using the ISB’s thousand node Linux cluster.