You can do all sorts of things by folding. Folding@Home, for example, are mostly concentrating on finding better ways to simulate folding as it happens in real life. Rosetta@Home is looking for practical ways to fold.

Human Proteome Folding uses the Rosetta software to fold proteins concentrating on human secreted proteins and certain proteins known to be involved in certain diseases.

Human Proteome Folding Phase 2 and all future WCG projects are exclusive to WCG. Some previous projects were shared, so that may have led to confusion.

Some grids are less concerned about scientific integrity. For example, grid.org routinely send out old (already calculated) work units when they run short. Some grids actually charge, and keep the results proprietary. World Community Grid does none of this. All results are released into the public domain, and volunteer effort is not wasted.

Hi bassim,

Grid.org and WCG did work simultaneously on Human Proteome Folding Phase 1 (HPF1) but the crunching for that project is complete. The Human Proteome Folding Phase 2 project is only at WCG. HPF2 is temporarily on hold while they fix a bug.

The Help Defeat Cancer project (HDC) is only at WCG. I don't think any other organisation has a project that is even a little bit similar to HDC. Other projects may be involved in cancer research but their research is different from HDC.

The Fight Aids @ Home project (FAAH) is unique too. There may be other projects working on AIDS but WCG does not collaborate with them and their research is slightly different.

So, the short answer is... WCG is not collaborating with other projects at this time, you could work on all the projects WCG offers with zero redundancy. There is a lot of friendly cooperation between most of the projects but very little reduncancy.

Grid.org has a very bad reputation. Ask around and you will discover they have little respect in the community.

I just hope WCG can handle userbase growth better than grid......at least the P.R here is better, ie it exists.

Looks like stats updates may runinto hours rather than minutes in the near future tho

I didn't crunch at grid.org so I don't know the history there as intimately as many others. What was the first indication that validated WUs were being resent and recrunched? How did the suspicion begin? How did it grow?

I don't know about the cancer re-crunch personally, but here's the low-down of the HPF1 re-crunch:

---HPF1 is announced closed over here
---Members (incl. Scribe) ask (on grid.org forum) what we're still crunching with HPF1 after it's closed
---Robby posts member news that HPF1 is not crunching anything new, but he doesn't want to close it yet (no reason given)
---This thread is started...basically saying that we're wasting time everyday on nothing. Stats were posted about how much time was wasted every day (quite a lot) on re-crunching HPF1 for all those users who don't read the forums.
---Finally, after about 2 months, Robby turns off HPF1 and announces it in member news (and this time he says he left HPF1 on because "some people liked the screensaver" - poor excuse IMHO...thousands of users leave the project on without reading the forums & had their time/resources wasted).

So, in this instance, it was admitted after it was announced closed here but left on over there (and people asked - I'm sure nothing would have been announced if no one raised an eyebrow about it). I'm not sure how it went down with cancer data.