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Former Member
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Nearly at the half-way mark!!.. anyone know what puzzles WCG will be solving next?
Protein folding was the most obvisous choice, I cant even imagin what else us crunchers can do to help. Does anyone here think the next project will involve biology? I hope its something that will contribute to mankind and come up with cures for disabilitys. Crunch away!! Dave  |
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Former Member
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I bet the next project will be nuclear bomb simulation haw haw haw
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Former Member
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I hope the next project is DNA Analysis. To me, this is much more important than this project, Protein Folding. As mentioned in my previous post, knowing what DNA is responsible for what allows for better Regeneration and Defence VIA genetic manipulation; Overall a more intelligent Biological System. It will also allow us humans to have the body which we desire. I apologize for being repetitive, just that I feel that is so important to have such knowlege which will lead to a better quality of life.
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I hope the next project is DNA Analysis. To me, this is much more important than this project, Protein Folding. As mentioned in my previous post, knowing what DNA is responsible for what allows for better Regeneration and Defence VIA genetic manipulation; Overall a more intelligent Biological System. It will also allow us humans to have the body which we desire. I apologize for being repetitive, just that I feel that is so important to have such knowlege which will lead to a better quality of life. As long as a not for profit entity submits a proposal this could very likey happen. I personaly hope the grid projects emphazize biological research. especially the investigations into trying to sort through the new science of systems biology and genome research. DNA analysis sounds very interesting. What type of computations are involved in such an analysis? Does it lend itself to grand computational challenges? Which is what the powers that be tend to like to use the grid for. |
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It will also allow us humans to have the body which we desire. Nice. Now let me give that some thought... Seriously though I think a lot of us would like to know whats next. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 3, 2005 7:35:22 AM] |
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Former Member
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I am not a scientist. What I am saying is an Institute such as "Institute For Systems Biology" may want to initiate a project which Compare and Contrast specialize cell DNA in order to accelerate our knowledge in finding out what DNA is responsible for what. A good way to what I see, would be to collect samples of various specialized cells such as: Hair, Fingernail, biopsies of various human parts from various races; Compare and Contrast the DNA which are turned on and off. Therefore, we can say so and so genes are responsible for creating fingernails and so and so genes are turned on always in ever type of specialized cells, so they provide some sorth of basic function. Forgive the Grammar and Spelling.
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It will also allow us humans to have the body which we desire. Nice. Now let me give that some thought... Seriously though I think a lot of us would like to know whats next. You fail to see that; what body we have, we look like and so on, is programmed in our DNA. DNA dictates what body we have. Knowing all our DNA, What they are responsible for, will give us the ability to program DNA which gives us the body we want, that is; Eye Colour, Hair Colour, Height etcetera. |
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Human Proteome Folding will likely end as early as August of 2005 and the World Community Grid support team is actively pursuing tons of leads about the next research project. In fact, we have one person dedicated to doing just that.
What we are learning is that researchers, when they design the research, have historically been constrained by budgets for large amounts of computing power and have therefore designed their research to run on computers that are within their budget. World Community Grid provides researchers with a huge amount of computing at not cost and the researchers are just now starting to understand this. So at this time our approach is still one of public awareness to research organizations. However, we hear that there are several research organization who are in the process of completing their application to run a research project on World Community Grid. In addition, the Institute for Systems Biology is considering running another smaller Human Proteome Folding project which considers the results of the current project and builds upon that. No one before has ever seen the massive results that are being produced out of the current Human Proteome Folding project so it makes sense that they might want to focus in on some particular proteins to see how they affect diseases and other human ailments. If any member is aware of research organizations that might need computing power, please make them aware of World Community Grid by pointing them to this page where they could submit an application or if they have questions, they could contact us via the Contact Us link found on the bottom of the page: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/submit_a_proposal.html |
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Former Member
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I would imagine the possibilities are endless. It's hard to believe that there are research organizations out there who have yet to realize what grid computing can do for them and WCG and UD in particular. I mean we essentially offer them free supercomputing power so long as it is an approved project. Grid computing has been around a while now. These people need to get with it. Personally, I would like to do the DNA stuff too. I think a full and complete knowledge of DNA and how it fuctions will utterly transform medicine and our lives. Also, a good project would be to test what molecular combinations affect the various receptors of neurons. This could lead to all sorts of drugs to prevent mental and pshycological disorders and perhaps even improve memory and perception. Lot's of really cool stuff is on the horizon and what I really like about being a part of WCG is that I am a part of the cutting edge of scientific and medical research. We here at WCG are making it happen!!
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