I've never switched teams, staying loyal to The Planetary Society, the team that STARTED IT ALL.

Um, since when has TPS been doing protein science?

I really don't think so, you can always just create a new Team but the way BOINC is set up is that the Credits will stay with the Team that it was earned with.

I was wondering if two like minded teams can merge into a new seperate team, and keep their past production intact.

Can somebody give me an accurate answer?

Scott

Thank-You All,
I get it,dohh,Now will crunch even more,good for a laugh!

Doug Worrall

In First Person Shooter (FPS) games - frags/fragging has to do with killing your opponents. (Examples of FPS are Counter Strike, BattleField 1942, etc) What's the "No Random WTS" refer to? Horrible to see abbreviations I'm not familar with. *grin*

"NO RANDOM WTS OR FRAGS"

... being a MMORPG fan...

Any chance of a link for the as yet unenlightened?

Odd as it may seem to you fans, I would't know a MMORPG if I saw one.

Oh dear, there goes my mouse cred -- R~~

You are close. the outer surface of HIV is extremely variable, so when an infected person has an immune response to it, the antibodies don't do anything because the virus has already changed. but there are a few key "Achilles heel" regions where the virus can't change because it needs these regions to keep infecting people, get into cells, etc. Unfortunately, the immune system doesn't usually make antibodies to these regions, because the variable parts are much more noticeable to the immune system (this is one of the ways in which the virus is very tricky). Our idea is to take these "Achilles heel"
regions that are critical to the virus, and embed them into small stable proteins which could be sent all over the world very cheaply. The hope is that when vaccinated with these proteins, people will make antibodies to these Achilles heel regions (because in contrast to when on the real virus, on the vaccine they will be very conspicuous). So then people will have antibodies which can "neutralize" the virus (indeed, several "neutralizaing" antibodies have been found in patients, and they do recognize the Achilles heel regions, but they are normally either not made or made at very low levels).

Thanks Aaron--we should be running vaccine design calculations on rosetta@home well before the next conference, and will definitely plan to present our work at this meeting (maybe you can help!). thanks for the heads up!

Thats fine everyone has a reason to not run a project or two or several, I have got a few of the Genome project they are runing but am awaiting the porting over of the Aids Project on to BOINC one more worthwile project for me to slowly munch on

It's not that FLOP calculations don't benefit, it's that the SETI program itself doesn't use the type of code to benefit from a 64 bit app.

Rosetta may or may not, it depends on the algorythms.

Most applications don't benefit from the 64 bit adress space, but from the ability to use more registers in the 64bit modus (for example media encoding) http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/24/1747228&mode=thread

David, here is a cliche idea, To spark interest in rosetta@home.

Ok, think of the matrix code running down the screen but its amino acid sequences instead, there is some kind of hynototic moby sounding music playing. All seams preety cliche but then screen starts changing and music is more intense, The acid sequnece starts increasing speed and starts morping into a protein. It shows the protein develop and then anouther protein pops up and more and more. Next we fade into a sceen from baker labs and we see you guys doing stuff with test tubes and lab rats and then it fades into some kid taking a pill. It ends with a powerful message supporting the rosetta@home project.

It could be done in flash or anouther medium. I am sure there is room for that contest idea I had earlier for something like that.