Hi Sylwester, have you tried looking in the "Research News & Updates" update section of the website (there's a link to research papers here )

Quite often with science of this nature, WCG is providing the computed raw data for other scientists to use/expand upon, so, although we'd all like to see x, y & z cured just solely by the efforts of WCG, things don't normally happen like that. Also, due to the simple nature of science, drugs need a lot of time/effort to develop - as there's numerous different testing phases that need to be worked through.

Hi Sylwester,

HFCC, HPF2, FAAH, DDDT2, are [wet]lab testing or further researching interesting compounds. Several projects completed the development and publication on-line of the result database such as Genomic Comparison and HPF[1].

A sales pitch *cheat-sheet* would be nice to have, this being the closest: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/viewAllProjects.do?proj=comp. Absent that, the Research and News links gb009761 gave and the Project Research pages that link to the official websites is where the detail info is.

Thanks for crunching at WCG and spreading the word.

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Andzgrid, your comparison is excellent!
Unfortunately let me play devil's advocate:
"Great, so we produce stem cells. But I do not see a antything helping with diseases that we have now. It's waste of time end electric energy(money) nothing more."

I am little disappointed. In fact, over the years we've used loot of carbon(not only) to run computers in the WCG. (conventional oil ends in about 40 years, carbon 120-another long topic)
To be honest what's the point of fishing? It may be pleasure. But when you are hungry it is only means to eat. WCG is somehow similar to fishing, the catch is - we are hungry and we need to start catching fish.

In the end most of people, that aren't smart enough to be scientists can't do nothing more and nothing smarter than crunching. Unfortunately not many agree with You and with me for that mater.

Sylwester Zdanowski:

If you somehow decouple a benefit or a satisfaction of a want or need -- from any association to a particular product or action, like what fishing is to satisfy hunger or the need for food, I'm sure you will see the transition that permeates between the action and the benefit so that the question of "why fish?" is convincingly answered. If you are not successful in that decoupling, then you will always want a material to hold, a product to measure, a thing to see -- before you are able to justify or rationalize your actions.

WCG is about facilitating basic research and basic research does not concern itself with a pre-set target product or result to produce before it rationalizes why it needs to do research. There is no pre-requiste that a material product needs to come out of the basic research before the research is justified. It is ironic that it is with this thinking that final products take embryonic form. But that product is for commercial companies to develop (and not WCG) after years of further development of knowledge from what started as raw data from WCG from crunchers crunching WUs.

As for the "can't do nothing more and nothing smarter than crunching", well, it doesn't make a difference: the machines turn out the same data. As for the scientists, they play a role in the solution, but they are not, nor will they ever be, all of the solution. After all, it takes two to tango .
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To compare it to fishing, WCG does not raise, catch, market or develop fish, we are mapping the oceans and providing a database of possiable locations to find/develop or catch fish.