Not HPF2, Not FAAH have an infinite or finite number of experiments for all I know. It's where the scientists are led by the current experiments and what else is learned in their field of research. The dates anyway are fluid and if reaching to the end of the gannt, not showing the full project duration i.e. the scale was cut off.

What's next after rice?
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~rb133/wcg/experiments.html

I'm putting a very rough guestimate that we'll be done with the HPF2 rice folding in 2-3 months, based solely on how quickly we''re going through the "n" series. I've got nc375 now (yes I know they're not entirely linear).

Hey all. I'm updating from my mobile so excuse me if I'm brief. We'll try to put together a status update soon to let you know what we'll be doing with all these rice proteins.

IBM estimates we'll still be crunching Rice towards the end of the year. That isn't necessarily the end of anything in particular, but we'll try to come up with a new cohesive set of experiments (possibly related to the plant protein families we're examining or the extreme environment halophiles we recently screened the database for).

What's great about our project is that we can keep running, keep sampling protein space, and continue to grow the value of our resource. De novo structure prediction using Rosetta is very time consuming and requires the sampling of many possible protein conformations. By folding related proteins from multiple organisms independently we gain the ability to study how evolution affects and is constrained by protein structure and function AND we greatly expand the sample space for improving our de novo predictions. We're studying this now in an effort to improve our genome annotation pipeline. Hopefully, we'll have a paper published soon that can better describe this for everyone.

Martin,
You might be correct. We don't currently have anything planned after the 'nh' series, but we better prepare ourselves soon. The grid must be tearing through these work units. It's possible we're getting more grid time than usual. IBM usually looks into these things for us, and I'll ask them to re-evaluate their estimates. Thanks for the heads up; I just discussed a few new experiments with my colleague and we have some exciting ideas.
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Patrick