Hello Mikek69

Your first post here with angry face , no nice isn´t



It has been reported , probably will have to wait until Monday ..


Thanks

Is okey

Exactly my point. It is somehow odd, to say the least, that crunchers are more interested in the status of the project than the researchers appear to be...

Regards,
Martin

Sure - but they do not communicate enough in order to avoid that perception. I think when volunteers donate their computer time, it should be a matter of course to keep them informed...
Take FAAH as a positive example in that sense.

Regards,
Martin

I apologize for the lack of updates but the rice project is not being ignored.

I have finished a gpu accelerated version of the folding code. It is 2 orders of magnitude faster than the equivalent cpu code. It implements more accurate energy functions in the minimization but is otherwise the same algorithm. Obviously it will not be used in this project as it is so close to the end.

I am beginning to analyze the results that have been returned. This is not a simple process given the huge number of structures that have been generated by the volunteers. Choosing the best structures would take at least 3 months in itself. I hope to use gpu accelerated code for this process too. Current we are validating the procedure on a test set where the sequences are similar to sequences of experimentally derived structures.

In terms of workunits, if memory serves me correctly, we have identified 27,000 subunits from larger protein sequences. Along with the 36,000 original sequences this givesrise to 63,000 sequences total or 630 workunits.

I will try to update the website later this week or beginning of the next week.

Again sorry for the lack of updates. The efforts of the volunteers is certainly appreciated.

Thanks for your patience

Hong