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Hi,
just a quick question.... Has there been much interest from other research bodies about using the results of this project?? Is this something which alot of people are waiting eagerly waiting to finish? I suppose what im asking is, what is the scope of impact on future research? Best wishes, MonkeyG  Also.... has anyone wondered why we never got the millions of computers we might have? why we are a very tiny proportion of internet connected computers....? |
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It would take someone from the ISB to answer your question, but if you look at http://www.asm.org/Academy/index.asp?bid=2093 (the critical issues reports for the American Society for Microbiology) you will notice that the fourth report is:
----------------------------------------# “An Experimental Approach to Genome Annotation” This report examines the difficult challenges currently facing genome annotation and recommends an initiative to accelerate progress in the field. This is what we are doing, only using a computational approach rather than an experimental one. mycrofth Added: Millions of computers take years. Look at http://folding.stanford.edu/ which has been growing since 2000 and is now up to 193751 active CPUs. 4/24/2004 F@H breaks 150,000 active CPUs! 4/8/2004 F@H breaks 140,000 active CPUs! 2/18/2004F@H breaks 130,000 active CPUs! 10/10/2003 F@H breaks 120,000 active CPUs! 10/1/2003 Happy Birthday, Folding@Home! Folding@Home is now officially 3 years old. Coding for FAH 1.x started in early 2000, beta testing started in August, and we went live & public on October 1. Congrats to all who have made FAH a success. 1/10/2003 F@H breaks 90,000 active CPUs! 11/6/2002 Folding@Home breaks the 70,000 Active CPU point In large part due to Google compute and to the press from our recent articles, we've broken the 70,000 active CPU barrier. We are actively working to shore up the server side infrastructure to handle the load and so far, things are looking pretty good. With lots of users, we'll be running many more projects (on many more servers) and thus an interesting side effect will be more WU variety project-wide. Thanks to all for contributing! etc. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 18, 2005 9:29:59 PM] |
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Former Member
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What do you mean by "other research bodies"?
Outside of biology, comp-bio and biomed there will not be much interest in this project. But is "other" implies other than my lab then the other labs/research comunities intereseted in this project are relatively diverse. a few examples are a collaberation with people working on yeast at the UW that will probably perk the interest of the yeast community at large. a number of people working on any of the pathogenic bacteria we've put on the grid. the malaria research community will have a dedicated site for the results we've gotten on malaria proteome. last but oposite of least there will be lots of people working on human proteins interested. I hope I'm answering your question , Rich |
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Hello Dr. Bonneau,
I think that your answer is just what most people are interested in. In the long term, after the results database is up, we will probably want some URLs pointing to places like the 'dedicated site for the results we've gotten on malaria proteome' and to some papers citing the database. This will be history by the time we can put it up, but it will reassure members that they are contributing to useful scientific progress. Meanwhile, good luck with your research! mycrofth |
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