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Former Member
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FRIDAY, Aug. 22 -- A new method of identifying protein structures related to Alzheimer's disease has been developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research team says its computer-based technique could help in the development of drugs that could prevent the formation of such structures...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080823/hl_hsn/c...er_HWyC5kR1VVStWvu27VJRIF |
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Former Member
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maybe i missed something:
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000155 |
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Sekerob
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halfcard, it would be handy if you would try to collect your finds on a particular topic in 1 thread. Makes it for others much easier to read up on related stuff. Can see threads for Alzheimer, Parkinson, Malaria, ALS
----------------------------------------Here's a pre-existing thread for Alzheimer: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=21060 cheers
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Former Member
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i'm not interested in what disease is involved, i'm thinking about their crunching methods compared to WCG (such as 'Energy-minima Mapping and Weighting (EMW)'. it is mentioned in the article. also it appears they do not have distributed computing but they do solicit large sums of cash.
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