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Friday, March 8, 2002
It's been quite some time since our last update, so I'll try to summarize the news on several fronts from the last two months or so.
Science
I presented our work at a number of scientific conferences over the last few weeks, and it was very well-received. Every one in our field is excited about Genome@home and Folding@home, and it's very satisfying for all of us to be at a stage where we can show that we've achieved real scientific advances through distributed computing. The paper we submitted is under peer review, and I hope to hear back from the journal any day now. I've started putting together the data analysis for the next couple of papers, which I plan to write up and submit by the end of May.
We've also recently written two reviews about F@h and G@h; one will be appearing as a book chapter, and the other as part of a special issue of the journal "Biopolymers". Finally, I'll be giving an invited talk next Friday (March 15) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada on both G@h and F@h.
G@h2.0
It's taken longer than expected (as these things always do) to code up Genome@home2.0. I've started some in-house testing of the Windows and Linux versions, but haven't yet tried to compile a version for Mac OSX. One of the reasons it's taken longer is that we've decided to merge the G@h2.0 client into the current Folding@home2.x client. The client will look just like Folding@home2.x, but the user will the option of running F@h or G@h, or both.
Aside from looking a lot cooler than a simple text-based console client, the new G@h2.0 will vastly increase the scope of research problems we can tackle. Since this client can auto-download the specific "scientific core" that is necessary to process a certain workunit, we're going to be able to test new design algorithms, design new classes of molecules, and look at a whole host of scientific questions that were out of reach with G@h0.99.
New people
We've had some new people join the G@h team in the last while. Guha Jayachandran is a C.S. grad student who's being helping develop and test the G@h2.0 core and the merged F@h/G@h client. Vishal Vaidynathan is a Chemistry Ph.D. student who's writing up the next generation design code. Sid Elmer, one of the first members of the Pande Group, has begun some work in collaboration with G@h to design peptide-mimetic protein ligands. Last but not least, Lillian Chong is a Ph.D. student from UCSF, who will be joining our group as a post-doctoral fellow this summer.
That's all for now. Happy Genoming!
It's been quite some time since our last update, so I'll try to summarize the news on several fronts from the last two months or so.
Science
I presented our work at a number of scientific conferences over the last few weeks, and it was very well-received. Every one in our field is excited about Genome@home and Folding@home, and it's very satisfying for all of us to be at a stage where we can show that we've achieved real scientific advances through distributed computing. The paper we submitted is under peer review, and I hope to hear back from the journal any day now. I've started putting together the data analysis for the next couple of papers, which I plan to write up and submit by the end of May.
We've also recently written two reviews about F@h and G@h; one will be appearing as a book chapter, and the other as part of a special issue of the journal "Biopolymers". Finally, I'll be giving an invited talk next Friday (March 15) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada on both G@h and F@h.
G@h2.0
It's taken longer than expected (as these things always do) to code up Genome@home2.0. I've started some in-house testing of the Windows and Linux versions, but haven't yet tried to compile a version for Mac OSX. One of the reasons it's taken longer is that we've decided to merge the G@h2.0 client into the current Folding@home2.x client. The client will look just like Folding@home2.x, but the user will the option of running F@h or G@h, or both.
Aside from looking a lot cooler than a simple text-based console client, the new G@h2.0 will vastly increase the scope of research problems we can tackle. Since this client can auto-download the specific "scientific core" that is necessary to process a certain workunit, we're going to be able to test new design algorithms, design new classes of molecules, and look at a whole host of scientific questions that were out of reach with G@h0.99.
New people
We've had some new people join the G@h team in the last while. Guha Jayachandran is a C.S. grad student who's being helping develop and test the G@h2.0 core and the merged F@h/G@h client. Vishal Vaidynathan is a Chemistry Ph.D. student who's writing up the next generation design code. Sid Elmer, one of the first members of the Pande Group, has begun some work in collaboration with G@h to design peptide-mimetic protein ligands. Last but not least, Lillian Chong is a Ph.D. student from UCSF, who will be joining our group as a post-doctoral fellow this summer.
That's all for now. Happy Genoming!
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