Dan,
It's good to hear that we're keeping you busy and we'll happily accept the resultant de-prioritising of the status page update.

Occasional interaction with crunching community goes a long way!

Your injection of humour is appreciated - most of us would have put "extreme-throughout" down as a typo!

+1

Schistosomiasis :D

Thanks for the update, mgl_DNSantiago.

Really great that you will now give us quarterly updates!

@Safak

I completely understand your desires to see results especially as this project has existed for multiple years. If nothing came from this work I doubt any of us would be here.

Part of solving difficult problems is to find as many of the pieces as possible. To a large degree in the research world the more journal article researchers write the more they are contributing and the more respected they are. The bigger the discovery in the publication, the more respected the journal that prints it is, the more respected the work/researcher(s) is(are).

A big part of me joining BOINC was seeing the list of publications that have come from BOINC projects -> Publications_by_BOINC_projects. WCG really stands out in this list as well.

First the idea, gathering the resources to test it, testing ideas, finding something worth writing about, writing the article, submitting it, making changes, getting article accepted and published...each step can take months to years to do with some overlap depending. This also explains why some newer/newly finished projects don't have any published work; it takes a lot of time. (can you feel the frustration I have doing an MA program? lol)

Considering how long people have been trying to find a cure for AIDS and how much money has been spent fighting it, I doubt this group will say "this is the cure!" (but I'd love to be proved wrong!!). Even if they "only" publish articles and speak at conferences it will be considered successful, but I hear you mate, I'd love for some big breakthrough that can pull other people to this project and others like it! And I'm really stoked they will give quarterly updates now!