Read this link from the Rosetta Site written by it seems David Baker, Ph.D.
Director, Rosetta@home

To get to link you could click on Rosetta website "about"

then click on

"Disease Related Research"

or follow the link directly below

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_medical_relevance.php

Is says after a long list of diseases (see below)

Malaria:
Anthrax:
HIV:
Other viruses
Alzheimer's disease:
Cancer:
Prostate Cancer:

" The above projects are NOT currently running on BOINC because we don't yet have an efficient queuing system which lets people submit jobs easily, but look for them soon! "


So my problem being why in the hell not and what diseases are we actually supporting research on ?

I was always of the belief that the number crunching was primarly for research on the above diseases

That page is outdated. Rosetta has since implemented the Robetta queue on to the BOINC stack and for more than a couple of years now have been running jobs related to research in proteins related to these and many other diseases for researchers at countless public and academic institutions around the world.

To stay apprised of what Rosetta is accomplishing, I recommend looking at the website of Dr. Baker's team and the Institute for Protein Design and their YouTube channel.

Probably the worst protein yet.

The Nazi Protein. Very dangerous.

That page is outdated. Rosetta has since implemented the Robetta queue on to the BOINC stack and for more than a couple of years now have been running jobs related to research in proteins related to these and many other diseases for researchers at countless public and academic institutions around the world.

To stay apprised of what Rosetta is accomplishing, I recommend looking at the website of Dr. Baker's team and the Institute for Protein Design and their YouTube channel.

The page is not some lost buried away page it's one of the primary pages for information about the whole project and it's still stating a misleading long list of diseases and only then only at the end of this list saying that the above list is not being worked upon.

Probably the worst protein yet.

The Nazi Protein. Very dangerous.

Not sure what your suggesting but well done on your commitment to the project given the amount of units you've processed but my question is fair given the page in question has been liked almost 7 thousand times on Facebook and no one
else seems to have read it or questioned it and isn't that what the foundation of science is meant to be?

[quote][quote]Probably the worst protein yet.


Also the updated Homepage directly states the opposite of what it states in the about page

Homepage

"You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's (See our Disease Related Research for more information). Please join us in our efforts! Rosetta@home is not for profit. "


"About" page Rosetta Info

Anthrax:
HIV:
Other viruses:
Alzheimer's disease:
Cancer:
Prostate Cancer:

The above projects are not currently running on BOINC because we don't yet have an efficient queuing system