This would be especially interesting because the only project concerning MS-Work was FAD , where i recently came from ( all available work was done )
To understand my "special interest" - i want to work for a cure for the desease i and many people i know suffer of. No matter if i can benefit of the science or not . I think 4 million reasons are enough with numbers rising.

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hi nozi!

I don't know if there is any work directly linked to MS here, but understanding and being able to accurately model protein folding will definitely be beneficial to MS research in the (hopefully not-too-distant) future.

HTH
Danny

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4 million. Is that in the US or globally?

Either way it is a convincing argument...

4 million. Is that in the US or globally?

Either way it is a convincing argument...

nozi's in Germany so it's unlikely to be a US stat ;)

I've just had a look and see an estimate of 85k sufferers in the UK which is ~1% of the world population, so if it scales uniformly, that's around 85 million worldwide (probably less because of UK demographics though).

[edit] Just had another look and it doens't scale uniformly! 3-4 million worldwide ;)

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As was pointed out in the thread about diabetes - the Rosetta project is working at improving the Rosetta client. It will then be able to be used by other projects to target specific problems.

If the client is improved enough, then it will get put to use to help find cures (just like we did over at FaD.)

http://www.chips.navy.mil/archives/03_spring/PDF/HPCMP.pdf
shows The High Performance Computing Modernization Program for the various branches of the military was used to "screen 2.5 million chemical structures using a specially designed algorithm. They identified 20 high potential inhibitors of Botulinum toxin sero-type A. They have since synthesized 3 of these materials in wet laboratories and initial tests indicate that all three are effective inhibitors."

This is posted as proof that the process works; that someone's algorithm was being used by Dr. Panchal and associates to do the screening; and that in the future we should see the various screening programs currently out there being put to use not just by the DC folks like us, but by private/government agencies as well.

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