An IBM project called World Community Grid will apply the untapped computing power of millions of personal computers to the study of AIDS, Alzheimer's, malaria, cancer and other diseases. Dr. Eric Jakobsson of the National Institutes of Health says, "This program is both a sizable commitment of computing resources and an encouraging sign of progress in moving toward a community model for biomedical computing." The new networks's first mission will be the Human Proteome Folding Project of the Institute for Systems Biology, which seeks to identify all the proteins in the human body and their functions. People who want to join the grid project and donate computer time will be able to download software from the above Web site. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 2004. NewsScan Daily® is a publication of NewsScan Inc.]
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