Posts by Paolo

1) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Possible new Application for ROSETTA@home (Message 41108) Posted 17 May 2007 by Paolo Post: Nature got here first. There are various bacteria that breakdown oils. They have been used commercially to clean up contaminated ground. Deep holes are bored into the area and a mixture of air and bacteria are blown in. Over a period of time the oil products are broken down. Have a look at this site - http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5334533-claims.html I gather that Tel Aviv University has been working with these bacteria and has come up with a number of innovations in cleaning up tanker wastes. Well, this idea doens't have to specifically target oil spills.. I was more thinking of air pollution coming from industries, or power plants.. To say the truth, this idea is kinda vague, but the point was mainly to find out if rosetta can help the enviroment, besides curing diseases.. Thanks anyway for the link! Btw, maeby the "natural" bacteria they are currently using for oil spills create some enviroment issues, or are not effiecient enough.. Infact, I don't think that people are able yet to completely stop an oil spill Paolo
2) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Possible new Application for ROSETTA@home (Message 41105) Posted 17 May 2007 by Paolo Post: Just the other day, i thought about a new "possible" usage of rosetta@home, which might be interesting, or perhaps quite stupid (since i'm not a scientist, i can't evaluate it's intelligence). Are you guys from rosetta able to design a protein, actually an enzime, which would bind up with highly toxic molecule which industries or power plants emmit and break it down into other molecules less or none polluting? "Once the enzime is designed", you can design the equivalent DNA of the gene which encodes for that protein, and implant it into a bacteria, throgh a bacteriofagus or any other better tecnique you are aware of. I know it's possible to go from the amino acid structure to it's equivalent DNA, since there are tables which go from the amino acid to the 3 nucleotides which encode that amino acid. Hopefully, the receiving bacteria will start producing that enizme, and hopefully, during the mitosis, the cell will even duplicate the gene which encodes that protein, so it could bring to life a whole colony of air or water "cleaning" bacteria. Maby, that enzime could bind to multiple substrates, and it would be even more cool if you find a way to make it create ATP or DAPH or any other energy carring molecule ;) This is just an idea, probably a science-fiction idea.. Paolo
3) Message boards : Number crunching : No work from project (Message 40819) Posted 12 May 2007 by Paolo Post: Thanks guys: appreciate your quick responses!
4) Message boards : Number crunching : No work from project (Message 40812) Posted 12 May 2007 by Paolo Post: Sorry for the ignorance, but how do you set the CPU runtime?? Thanks Paolo
5) Message boards : Number crunching : No work from project (Message 40810) Posted 12 May 2007 by Paolo Post: Yeah, i see 0 queues and have no work for my 4 PCs.. Hope they fix whatever is wrong, or update their server.. Who knows.. This might even have an effect on the recent average credid, thought Paolo
6) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Rosetta@home Web Site Translations (Message 40337) Posted 4 May 2007 by Paolo Post: I am able, and extremely willing to translate to ITALIAN. How can i do so? Can someone send me the english version i can translte to italian? Let me Know Paolo Hi Paolo, If you haven't found it by now, download the English version at this link : http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_project_specific_translations/en.po And then download the "po edit" program. The address for downloading "po edit" is in message n� 34652 You can send your Italian translation to David Kim : You will find his email address in message n� 190171 Read the other messages, they will help you. J Murdoch Thanks for the links. I tried to edit the file using poedit, witch i had downloaded from the link you i found on this site, but it gives an error when i try to save my project. Althogh i dougt it, it might be that i'm running Windows Vista? I edited about 1/4 of the file using good old WordPad, witch seems to be working just fine.. If you know why it gives that error during save operation, le me know ;)
7) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Rosetta@home Web Site Translations (Message 40228) Posted 2 May 2007 by Paolo Post: I am able, and extremely willing to translate to ITALIAN. How can i do so? Can someone send me the english version i can translte to italian? Let me Know Paolo
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Difficulty interpreting plots of results from active work units (Message 39966) Posted 27 Apr 2007 by Paolo Post: I am new to rossetta, i have just been running it for 2 days.. I have understood that the less energy it calculates, the better it is.. But what are RMSD ? I noticed that the better it worked out, the lower the RMSD are. So where is the best place the red squares can be in the plots?? lower left corner? Thanks Paolo
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : ver 5.59 of rosseta, progress indicator (Message 39965) Posted 27 Apr 2007 by Paolo Post: I have noticed the same issue, but does it actually start over, or it resumes? I've actually noticed that after a reeboot.. Thanks Paolo