Rosetta (at) Home

sledgy

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

This is much like the SETI(at)Home project in that it's distributed processing, but it's for cancer research.

Lend a few cycles and pass it around You never know it may pay off down the road.

Joshua Stubbles

They'll never cure cancer. It's population control.

ebagg

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They'll never cure cancer. It's population control.

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And because it allows drug companies execs to drive fancy cars.

sledgy

Bah scientists will prevail.
Here's an interesting essay:
http://www.mtmi.vu.lt/pfk/funkc_dariniai/nanostructures/nano_robots.htm
Imagine being able to return to your prime comfiguration, say 20 years old and remain that way indefinitely!

hawken

I smoke and have felt the effects of cancer in my family. I'll give this a few cycles on my mac.

[edit] well, I would have, but the install is so facetious I gave up! You download some software then it asks for a url, username and password. Hardly user friendly [/edit]

sledgy

Here's the URL or "project" that you use for Rosetta:
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta

They do the login thing because people like looking at their progress/contribution.