POEM@home

[ptagi]

Can someone tell me more about this project. Which are the requirements? All I know it some kind of biology/protein thing. Is this the same as proteins@home or rosetta@home does? Or what are there benefits?

I have my P3 set up with all kind of projects to do only biology stuff and I switch them each month.

[tutta55]

Can someone tell me more about this project. Which are the requirements? All I know it some kind of biology/protein thing. Is this the same as proteins@home or rosetta@home does? Or what are there benefits?

I have my P3 set up with all kind of projects to do only biology stuff and I switch them each month.

According to their website they have a novel approach to predicting protein structure. But what that means exactly, it would probably take a specialist to explain. Or understand

[Krikke]

According to their website they have a novel approach to predicting protein structure. But what that means exactly, it would probably take a specialist to explain. Or understand

By joining this project you will contribute to a computational approach to

predict the biologically active structure of proteins
understand the signal-processing mechanisms when the proteins interact with one another
understand diseases related to protein malfunction or aggregation
develop new drugs on the basis of the three-dimensions structure of biologically important proteins.
POEM@HOME implements a novel approach to understand these aspects of protein structure, which lends itself very well to worldwide distributed computing. The scientific approach behind POEM@HOME is a computational realization of the thermodynamic hypothesis that won C. B. Anfinsen the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972.


Maybe we should call Mr Anfinsen for some detailed explanation

[ptagi]

Let's grab the phone and call the bugger

I have read the stuff on the website, but it doesn't give me much clues. So actually, let's hook up and test. Already crunched one wu and it seems that the length is almost the same as proteins. So I'm still deciding if I'm gonna crunch this or should swap over to WCG as permanent project on the box.

One permanent project on each box + one backup project which I can play with to help the team in their goals.