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msim
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Are there any particular mathematics projects(particularly one of the mathematical distributed computing projects) that researchers and scientists might see as potentially helping increase the ability of life sciences projects and general life sciences research?
Given, there are things like Rosetta@home and Folding@home But I'm talking more like the theoretical and incremental mathematical search projects. Occassionally I like to switch projects, and I've previously done GIMPS and Euler both which I've found have a program which you can run all-the-time on even some of the slowest of computers and still generate results. |
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Former Member
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I don't think there is. Life sciences tend to be modelling problems, and as such take an algorithmic approach. Improving them is a computing science problem, not a mathematical one.
It is hard to say what practical use some of the mathematical crunching problems have. Most of the numbers are too large even to be useful in cryptography. |
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Former Member
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Looking over the Mathematics section at http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html , I don't see anything that strike me as practical. But I found Number Theory very boring in college, though trying to prove something could be - - - interesting.
If you are not worried by possible large uploads, SIMAP in the Life Sciences section might prove interesting. They are still identifying bugs, but it seems to be improving quickly. mycrofth |
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Dingo
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Hi
----------------------------------------There is a Mathematical BOINC based project called sztaki . A description of the work can be found HERE |
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