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 Distributed
Folding Project -
Team Ninja
Is a project dedicated to helping solve
the protein folding problem. The Distributed
Folding Project aims to test our new protein folding
algorithm. They want see if it can reproduce natural protein
folds after making extremely large samples of many different
folds.
With the help of computing power, we will create
the largest samples of protein folds ever computed. We have
already sampled 1 Billion (1,000,000,000) folds for 5 small
proteins, and are in the process of sampling 10 Billion
(10,000,000,000) for another 10 large proteins. By the end of
our first phase, we hope to make over 100 Billion protein
folds spanning 15 different proteins.
Find-a-Drug -
Team Ninja
Find-a-Drug aims to
run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of
diseases which have a major impact on health; Malaria,
Respiratory Disease, Cancer, HIV, Multiple Sclerosis, Proteome
and more...
We seek to collaborate with the world's
leading experts including academics in each therapeutic
area.
Members may elect to opt in and out of projects at
any time using the Find-a-Drug control panel. The progress of
each project as well as contributions of our members are
published on the web-site. Members can print milestone
certificates when they pass milestones for the numbers of
molecules processed, the computer time contributed and points
generated. The list of members who have found molecules which
exhibit the desired biological activity when tested in the
laboratory is also published and special active molecule
certificates are awarded to these members. It is usual for
these certificates to be issued some months after the computer
predictions are available and only a subset of the molecules
predicted to be active are tested.
Genome@Home -Team Ninja
The Human Genome Project is nearing
completion, and scientists are working hard to develop the
understanding needed to use this wealth of genetic information
in ways that will be significant to medicine and humankind.
One of the most important ways to do this is to study the
other genomes and individual gene sequences that are already
available to us. By understanding how these genomes work, we
will be able to put the huge amounts of data (over 50, 000
genes and 3 billion nucleotide base pairs) from the Human
Genome Project into biological and medical context, giving it
real meaning.
TSC - Team
Ninja
The Rothberg Institute For Childhood
Diseases is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a
cure for children suffering from Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
(TSC). We operate at the intersection of modern biology,
computer science, and chemistry. The work we do on TSC
will also have a direct impact on cancer research, and we will
be testing the drugs we find as weapons against cancer. In
addition the work we do to create a system to attack orphan
diseases will form a prototype for work on other orphan
diseases.
Sengent
(D2OL) -
Team
Ninja
The Drug Design and Optimization Lab
(D2OL)™ works to discover drug candidates against Anthrax,
Smallpox, Ebola and SARS and other potentially devastating
infectious diseases. Using computing power, the
proprietary methodology to identify targets (focusing on
epidemiology, drugability and the target's role in the
pathogen's lifecycle) and collaborating with experts in
computational chemistry and structure based drug design, the
(D2OL)™ initiative is working to improve our socities ability
to respond to the ever increasing threats in a timely
manner.
SETI@home
- Team Ninja
Is a scientific
experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can
participate by running a free program that downloads and
analyzes radio telescope
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