Why don't you combine efforts with other BOINC projects ?

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marcustik Send message Joined: 4 Jan 06 Posts: 4 Credit: 232 RAC: 0	Message 8417 - Posted: 5 Jan 2006, 12:24:09 UTC Hi ! It seem's to me, that there are many projects working on the protein folding problem like: rosetta@home folding@home predictor@home worldcommunitygrid ... and maybe some more Is my assumption correct that they are all targeting the same goal ? Why don't they combine efforts in a single project ? Or is this happening behind the scenes allready ? Thanx for your explanation, Marcus Tik ID: 8417 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Keck_Komputers Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 211 Credit: 4,246,150 RAC: 0	Message 8419 - Posted: 5 Jan 2006, 12:40:19 UTC They actually all do slightly different things so it is worthwhile for them to operate seperately. rosetta@home-mostly works on improving the rosetta modeling software itself. folding@home-studies the machanics of the folding process. predictor@home-attempts to predict what the final fold will be. worldcommunitygrid-uses the rosetta software for actual studies. So as you can see from this simplistic summary only rosetta and WCG are really ripe for combining. SIMAP is another protien project, I am not familliar with it though. BOINC WIKI BOINCing since 2002/12/8 ID: 8419 · Rating: 1 · rate: / Reply Quote

marcustik Send message Joined: 4 Jan 06 Posts: 4 Credit: 232 RAC: 0	Message 8650 - Posted: 9 Jan 2006, 15:11:50 UTC - in response to Message 8419. They actually all do slightly different things so it is worthwhile for them to operate seperately. rosetta@home-mostly works on improving the rosetta modeling software itself. folding@home-studies the machanics of the folding process. predictor@home-attempts to predict what the final fold will be. worldcommunitygrid-uses the rosetta software for actual studies. So as you can see from this simplistic summary only rosetta and WCG are really ripe for combining. SIMAP is another protien project, I am not familliar with it though. Thanx for your answer - now the grand concept behind the scenes is a little bit clearer to me :-) ID: 8650 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Tribaal Send message Joined: 6 Feb 06 Posts: 80 Credit: 2,754,607 RAC: 0	Message 10629 - Posted: 10 Feb 2006, 15:20:07 UTC - in response to Message 8419. They actually all do slightly different things so it is worthwhile for them to operate seperately. rosetta@home-mostly works on improving the rosetta modeling software itself. folding@home-studies the machanics of the folding process. predictor@home-attempts to predict what the final fold will be. worldcommunitygrid-uses the rosetta software for actual studies. So as you can see from this simplistic summary only rosetta and WCG are really ripe for combining. SIMAP is another protien project, I am not familliar with it though. I have a related question (sorry if I don't post this in the right place): which of theses projects (if any) have the biggest short-term impact on current disease research? Or long-term, if you want to put it the other way around... My knowledge of protein folding is much too thin (yet...) to figure it out myself... ID: 10629 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote