Tuesday, October 14, 2008

guys... come join me in this :)



guys... please come and join me in these projects...

http://www.ourgtn.org/index.php?showtopic=3303

What is Fight AIDS @ Home

FightAIDS@Home is a project of the Olson laboratory that uses distributed computing to contribute your computer's idle resources to accelerate research into new drug therapies for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

How do I join the FightAIDS@Home Project?

All you need to do to join FightAIDS@Home is download and install the free software. Once that has been done, your computer is then automatically put to work and you continue using your computer as usual.

How does the FightAIDS@Home software work?

We use a client (a piece of software) that automatically downloads small pieces of data and then performs calculations that model how drugs interact with various forms of HIV Protease, a key molecular machine in the HIV virus. After your computer processes the information, the results are sent back to The Scripps Research Institute where they are analyzed by researchers in Prof. Olson's Laboratory.

What's in it for me?

You get the satisfaction of knowing you are harnessing the idle resources of your computer to assist us in our endeavours to develop not only new AIDS therapies, but new methodologies for fighting AIDS. We couldn't do it without you.



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more info can be found in the above website given... please guys, do join :)

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