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Where are we going next?

I see that we completed the first two experiments and that we are currently working on "ChemBridge (500,000) vs. Wild Type HIV Protease (1)" at 4% done.

I think we have greatly accelerated the research being done by the Scripps Research Institute on a relatively small time scale. Do they have any further plans to do more experiments with distributed computing or is this the final phase?

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[May 18, 2006 12:12:15 AM]

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Re: Where are we going next?

How about HIV integrase? Maybe we should start crunching against integrase as target? I wonder what the scientists think? What do you think, Rbolo?

I wonder if RNAi (if we understood it better) could become a good project?

[May 18, 2006 4:45:22 AM]

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Re: Where are we going next?

RNAi seems like a good strategy to integrate at some point in the future but right now I don't think we know enough to take that road.

Targeting the other proteins(targets) would be a logical choice I would think as we need all the weapons we can get against the fight on HIV and to better understand it.

We got the ball rolling so why not take full advantage of it?

[May 18, 2006 4:11:45 PM]

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