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Donate your computer's idle time to the World Community Grid to analyze drug molecules that stop AIDS from developing. FightAIDS@Home has just completed 100 years worth of analysis in less than 10 months! The 2 quadrillion calculations in the study were made possible by 190,000 individuals in 185 countries, that participated as World Community Grid members, by loading the World Community Grid software onto their computers. Started by IBM and United Devices in November 2004, World Community Grid is also running cancer and human proteome folding research projects.
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Through FightAIDS@Home, The Scripps Research Institute is identifying drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease. This stops the virus from maturing and helps prevent the onset of AIDS. During Phase 1, World Community Grid virtually screened approximately 2,000 compounds in the National Cancer Institute’s Diversity Set, against 270 wild type and mutant HIV proteases. Phase 2, begun this June, is screening 230,000 compounds -- the entire NCI database -- against wild type HIV protease. Four successful compounds identified in Phase 1 are already being analyzed by synthetic chemists to determine their potential as new drugs to stop HIV.
Join the CARE Team Today
After becoming a World Community Grid member by downloading the software, you can join one of World Community Grid’s many teams. Joining CARE’s team will demonstrate the strength of our constituent base to the world, and give you access to the CARE team Forum where you can exchange ideas with others on our team.
Check out the real-time graphic of the molecule YOUR computer is testing to see if it blocks the active site of the HIV protease! (After downloading, click the aqua colored, V-shaped, World Community Grid icon that appears by your time/date display.)
Pass on the message... More computers mean more analysis of the HIV protease!
You CAN make a difference in the fight against AIDS. Donate your idle computer time to www.worldcommunitygrid.org
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