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Thread: New Research Priorities - Epigenetics and Regenerative Medicine |
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ngmwcg
Cruncher Joined: Jan 2, 2010 Post Count: 18 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Krembil and WCG Team,
Was wondering if Krembil could share some thoughts on the priorities for the next research areas to be pursued. 1. If I could suggest, it would be great to see a project or two related to better understanding epigenomics and epigenomic reprogramming. This is an area of increased interest as it holds the potential to down regulate disease and upregulate biological processes that are beneficial to human health. This includes mechanisms for repairing the human body from disease, trauma and aging. 2. It would be further exciting to see the computational work done on volunteer compute power inform robotic high throughput synthesis and screening in a lab. The lab equipment would observe the results, use those results to formulate new hypothesis and design the next iteration of work units to send out to the volunteer grid. This is not far from what some other discovery orgs are doing but few offer the participation of volunteer compute. 3. In terms of HW support, would love to see Android support for TPUs (now on Pixel phones) via the NNAPI. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/neuralnetworks If others share an interest in this would be great to see some support or +1s. Regards, NGM |
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Jurisica
World Community Grid Admin, Mapping Cancer Markers and Help Conquer Cancer Scientist Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 88 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thank you NGM for the suggestions.
While we do have plans for the new projects and expansion of WCG activities - we still are not finalized with the transition and system migration. Even though QA system is prepare - more testing and optimization of our setup needs to be done before we can setup production system and migrate it from IBM. As you could imagine - as an academic institution our resources are limited - and we will need to carefully prioritize what we could vs want to to achieve. The priority is to ensure current projects are not negatively affected. We will then have call for new projects; and will try to identify projects that would benefit from WCG and benefit humanity - and we will also be listening to volunteers and consider their suggestions to try to identify researchers in new areas that may want to run the project on WCG. We are also working on finding partners that may help us reduce time required for project onboarding, and broaden/improve efficiencies how WCG runs on diverse hardware (and as noted earlier – still try to improve how credits are awarded for the computation). Hopefully, with new funding partners, we will be able to expand the team and start moving on these items earlier. thank you for the contributions. igor |
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