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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Welcome to the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project phase 2 (HCMD2).
In order to understand how proteins perform their necessary functions in living cells, a better and more detailed understanding of protein-protein interactions is required, to ultimately help researchers to design therapeutic strategies. HCMD2 will analyse a large database of human proteins and screen them to search for protein partners in the living cell. Some of the 2200 protein structures that will be analysed in your machines are known to be involved in Muscular Dystrophy Diseases and others are known to actively participate in various tissues and organs like the heart and the brain. Phase 1 of the project allowed us to conceptualise and confirm a numerical methodology discriminating protein partners from non-interacting pairs of proteins (for a pool of protein pairs whose interaction was known). Phase 2 of the project will apply the numerical method on protein pairs whose interaction is unknown to discover new potential protein partners. Each unit crunched in phase 2 will bring us information on the interaction of a pair of proteins among the 2200. Your contribution to this project will result in valuable information for biologists and physicians, and eventually will benefit all researchers working on genetic diseases, particularly, neuromuscular diseases. The ultimate hope is that we will help to develop innovative therapies that will lead to treatment for the vast majority of neuromuscular diseases, including Muscular Dystrophy. Many of you already crunched lots of our units for phase 1, which has been very successful and rewarding. A big part of this success certainly goes to all Phase 1 participants. As this second phase of the project starts, we thank people everywhere who are making a contribution to HCMD2 by donating the unused cycles of their computer to World Community Grid and the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project Phase 2. --------- The project is supported by Decrypthon (a partnership of AFM/IBM/CNRS) and the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie. ******************************************************** Bienvenue dans la seconde phase du projet Lutte contre les Dystrophies Musculaires (HCMD2). Afin de comprendre comment les protéines remplissent leur fonction biologique dans les cellules, il est nécessaire de mieux comprendre en détail les modes d'interactions entre protéines dans le but d'aider les chercheurs à développer de nouvelles stratégies thérapeutiques. HCMD2 va analyser une large base de données de protéines humaines et passer celles-ci au crible afin de chercher parmi elles des partenaires protéiques potentiels in vivo. Une partie des 2200 structures protéiques que votre ordinateur va contribuer à analyser concerne des molécules impliquées dans les dystrophies musculaires, une autre partie des ces protéines joue un role important dans divers tissus ou organes comme le coeur ou le cerveau. La première phase du projet nous a permis de développer et tester une méthode qui permet de discriminer les partenaires protéiques des paires de protéines qui n'interragissent pas ensemble (à partir d'un ensemble dont les interactions expérimentales sont connues). La seconde phase va appliquer cette méthode numérique à des protéines dont on ignore les interactions afin de découvrir de nouveaux partenaires potentiels. Chaque unité de calcul résolue durant la phase 2 nous apportera des informations sur le mode d'interaction de deux protéines parmi les 2200 étudiées. Votre contribution à ce projet apportera des informations importantes aux biologistes et aux physiciens, et à terme bénéficiera à tous les chercheurs qui travaillent sur des maladies génétiques et en particulier les maladies neuromusculaires. Au final nous espérons contribuer au développement de thérapies innovantes qui aboutiront à un traitement de la grande majorité des maladies neuromusculaires, y compris les dystrophies musculaires. Beaucoup d'entre vous ont déja résolu des unités de calcul lors de la première phase du projet, qui a été un succès et nous a beaucoup appris. Une grande partie de ce succès revient naturellement aux participants de la phase 1. Avec le démarrage de la phase 2, nous souhaiterions remercier tous les gens qui apportent leur contribution à HCMD2 en donnant du temps de calcul au projet et à World Community Grid. -------------------- Ce pojet est soutenu par le programme Decrypthon (un partenariait AFM/IBM/CNRS) et l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie. |
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Former Member
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Wonderful news!
I've been waiting for this project for some time now... Badge-hunting put aside for a while - I'll try to bring as many people to contribute for this project, knowing how important even the smallest breakthrough will be for people suffring from Neurodegenerative diseases. Best of luck! |
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roundup
Veteran Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Post Count: 831 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Dear Alessandra,
congratulations for the project start! It would be wonderful to read in the future that WCG made the decisive contribution to find therapies against neuromuscular diseases. Count on my help! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Wow, this went quick now...!!!
I guess Daniele will be ever so happy, that we now can crunch against Muscular Dystrophy again... For my part, I'll do my best!!! Happy crunchin' to all!!! |
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ALAIN_13013
Advanced Cruncher France Joined: Nov 28, 2006 Post Count: 83 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Alessandra,
----------------------------------------Très très bonne nouvelle, nous re-voila sur ce projet. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
good news ! Congratulations on the project start. I know a lot of crunchers have been waiting for this project to start.
All the best, Gerard |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1452 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
How many different initial parameters and initial positions of proteins you will try on average for each of 2200*2200 pairs ?
----------------------------------------Thanks for more info! |
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GIBA
Ace Cruncher Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Post Count: 5374 Status: Offline |
Welcome again.
----------------------------------------Congratulations to restart the project HCMD phase II, probably the most expected project in WCG until now. There are a lot of crunchers waiting to crunch and colaborate for this very important research.
Cheers ! GIB@
Join BRASIL - BRAZIL@GRID team and be very happy ! http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=DF99KT5DN1 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Wonderful news!
I've been waiting for this project for some time now |
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boulmontjj
Senior Cruncher France Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 317 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Welcome again. Congratulations to restart the project HCMD phase II, probably the most expected project in WCG until now. There are a lot of crunchers waiting to crunch and colaborate for this very important research. For sure, and HFCC was discovered when it started as great surprise. Certainly because HFCC concern children and when we think about muscular dysprophy, we think first about children. There is a common point that is quite universal in this world, the attention which we carre to the children. |
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