More on the hompage about this would be great. Statistics about computational grunt generally only attract the technically literate and technically interested. The average layperson would be more interested in 40 compounds being ordered for testing, how many millions have been saved in research, projects that occured mostly if not entirely because of WGC, peer reviewed papers published in journals, etc.

I would like to see more about tangible benefits on he WGC site.

GEORGE, u really need to put the turbo talk to the side and write out the words like praps (perhaps), hughmans (humans), sumwhere (somewhere), witch (which) or substitude words like veer ('leaning towards' or 'sided' i suppose)......trouble enough when native inglise wright. Me foreigner non capice.

McLeod, i agree...... the 40 compound message was in a regular thread and not in the 'member news' section......the 'why we are here' news and the 'pulse of the projects' like posts are few and far between. The 'too busy' comment has come too often..... >220,000 members, many running multiple device and not being able to give periodic, weekly / by weekly updates on the state of the community and it's progress would not cost more than ** an hour a week. Most dont want to Google to find out what's going on for and with WCG!

** oops is it 'than' or 'then'

What the *$&# are you running? 1100 posts and veteran cruncher in a year? What do you have a server farm in the basement or something?

Yes, more front page information on tangible information, not buried in posts, so busy laypeople like me who do this on the side (the bulk of the members?) can easily see what's going on.

Even a statistic on peer reviewed papers published, or reminder that some drugs did not need to be tested in the lab and so on, it's all good information and will encourage people to continue to contribute to this worthwhile project.

It has to be prominent though, perhaps almost like a newspaper, with the important headline grabbing news on the front page, not in the columns.

I am only new to this, so I am just throwing thoughts up in the air, but it's a suggestion.

Can someone here with some more time and knowledge of this project take this up?

Hello Ian McLeod,
You can look at http://www.nyu.edu/fas/biology/faculty/bonneau/ to follow the progress of the paper being written for HPF1 (now completed). You can download the PDF of the draft under the 'Rosetta de novo Structure Prediction ' section. Otherwise there are just various posts and newsletters, all linked to from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=4925#51997

We just do not have a list of publications yet. We will have to run a number of projects to build up a backlist.

Lawrence