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Thread: Re: Who gives the money for this project ? |
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ULI UND MICHEL
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Can somebody tell me who is paying for this research?
Is this research made to change the genes of rice? |
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Dieter Matuschek
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Because up to now nobody responded, I try to do this from a naive amateurs view:
----------------------------------------(1) Due to the information here IBM Corporation is the sponsor of WCG. (2) Due to the information here rice is proposed to be breeded. By doing this IMHO genes are changed in a natural way.  Ask not what the world can do for you - ask what you can do for the world. |
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Sekerob
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Common Dieter, this has only been up 15 minutes and previously when trying to answer, the post was deleted and the reply going into space!
----------------------------------------So Hi Uli und Michel, The base of the project is explained here: http://protinfo.compbio.washington.edu/rice/ and in this video: http://www.youtube.com/v/pWTc6GHIR1k&hl The network and hosting is provided by WCG and the processing is done by us the members free of charge for the scientists of the University of Washington. How their lab research and developing of the program were funded I've not immediately been able to locate. The US Education & Research system uses allot of grands in their programs. There is no gene modification. There is search for the best types of genes and breeding with those to come to more nutritious more yielding rice types, not what was e.g. done through "Golden Rice". Please see this post that shows the direct answer to what surely is many a members concern.... gene modicifaction. Well Not Here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/printpost?post=165942
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Former Member
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Hello ULI UND MICHEL,
This project is described at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/rice/viewRiceMain.do Clicking on the first link there takes you to the project website at http://protinfo.compbio.washington.edu/rice/ At the bottom of the page, it says: "Funding for research comes from National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health." The links in the project website take you to a number of interesting web pages. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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In general, most of this money is coming from the NSF (it was originally seeded by a $2 million grant I wrote to the NSF). The NIH contributed to the algorithm development. Besides this, there were others including the Searle Scholars Program (which enabled me to generate the preliminary data to get the NSF grant), and a number of other sources (a lot of my graduate students and postdocs have their own funding). For a full list, see
----------------------------------------http://bioverse.compbio.washington.edu/about/credits If you got to http://bioverse.compbio.washington.edu you'll actually see that we've applied our methods to 50+ organismal proteomes (including six rice proteomes, three of which are publicly available) with heavy emphasis on rice (so our methods can be applied to any organism and a next step in this project is to probably go after rice pathogens, as well as other cereals such as maize (corn), wheat, etc.). --Ram (PI on this project) [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 16, 2008 5:33:31 PM] |
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