The Help Conquer Cancer Scientist have provided an update on the Help Conquer Cancer project, which was included in the June, 2009 Newsletter. You may review the newsletter online here, or for your convenience the update is as follows:

Help Conquer Cancer, Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
This month marks a milestone in Help Conquer Cancer: 25% of our work units have been processed on the Grid, representing 3 million crystallization trials on over 2,000 proteins. Analysis of these results is proceeding on multiple fronts. Our latest crystal-finding classifier, generated from HCC results, can identify 4 out of 5 images containing protein crystals, greatly reducing the effort of manually searching through images for crystals, and thereby increasing the rate of protein structure solution. Using this classifier on a set of 5.7 million images, we recently identified 11 proteins with favorable crystallization conditions, all of which are homologous to human proteins on our cancer target list (spanning lung, ovarian, prostate and head & neck cancers). Finding crystallization conditions clears one hurdle on the path to determining the structure, and ultimately the function, of these cancer targets.

Full Report: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~juris/WCG/UPDATE-APR2009.pdf