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"Help save the world."

You see this is an appeal for you to join www.find-a-drug.co.uk You might have heard about SETI@home, you know the thing where a program runs in the background using your unused processing power to scan data from a satellite dish.

Well FAD is similar in operation, except that instead of looking for aliens it looks for molecules and proteins that can be targeted for further research and stuff in finding a cure for cancer.

I have been running distributed computing projects for over a year now.
It doesn't require much effort, you download a small program and a work unit (WU). Then the program runs in the background just processing. When it finishes that WU it moves on to the next in the queue of 2 or 3 that you download every so often from the net. When it is finished it gets sent back to FAD.

The program doesn't cause slowdown, it only uses unused power, as whenever you do anything else like type a letter it lets you do that and then starts processing again. After all other than in video editing or really high powered games you only ever use an average of 10% or so of your computers capacity. So why don't you donate it to a good cause?

FAD has several ongoing projects. Currently these are cancer, HIV, malaria, multiple sclerosis, SARS and bio terrorism antidotes.

If you do decide to join, I have now created a Special Reserve team. The team number for entering on the setup screen is 2072. So come on join up. So far there is 13 of us in the team. Out of 147 teams, Special Reserve is ranked 54. There is even a linux version now.

One day our efforts could make a difference. Imagine the lives that could be saved. In Britain, 1 in 3 people get cancer. Over a million people a year die in developing countries from Malaria, 3 times as many as AIDS kills. Even so, HIV is at epidemic levels and kills 100,000s a year all around the world. 40 million people in Africa have HIV, and in time it will kill them all.

This project doesn't require anything much of you, all you have to do run the program in the background. You can help to make a difference. It all builds up, just from lots of people running this. So far nearly 4,000 years worth of computer time has been spent scanning 27.62 billion moleculules.

There have been successes in finding growth inhibitors on several occasions in several areas. So come on, join us and help save the world.

I just don't get it.

Last update before I go. The team recently passed another team, although it was just. They could well overtake us again, especially as I shall be away for a couple of weeks.

Most of the current targets are close to finishing, with all but one of them scheduled to have finished within the next 5 days. However one of them will almost certainly be extended to the full set of half a billion molecules, as opposed to the 40 million that it has been at so far. New proteins and targets will be on their way soon, including a revisit to one of the older ones. 1E7U-Q2 is going to be marked as methodology, but was a cancer molecule when it was Q1. This is due to new interest after lab testing and a new revision of the software, albeit one still in beta testing just now.

More new targets are expected within the next few days.

VenomByte has a certificate for 1 million molecules: [URL]http://stats.findadrug.org.uk/certify.php?Nickname=VenomByte&CertType=1&Size=Default[/URL] with unknown kernel and Ortega both around 7 jobs away from one themselves. To find any: [URL]http://stats.findadrug.org.uk/milestones.html[/URL].


Special Reserve
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Time:
2 years 49 days
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Jobs:
1,448
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Molecules:
14,303,819
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Hits:
69,882
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GFLOPS:
19,535,640
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Overall Find-A-Drug has now had over 1 million days of computer time and processed 21.6 billion molecules. Keep on crunching guys!

Yeah we don't so screw the billions of people who do right?

Hell, I don't have cancer, so why bother trying to do anything about it?

Malaria are found on mosquito which mostly are in warmer climate. So we don't need to worry about it.......

A new Malaria query started today.

I've only just started running it in the past few minutes so not sure what the runtime will be like for it.

HIV, Cancer, Diabetes and Methodology are all still running as usual.

Probably for spamming a thread needlessly.

Mystique wrote:
> *Moonwalks in, slaps crackhead and Moonwalks out*

aww what?

*Moonwalks in, slaps crackhead and Moonwalks out*

"Heal The World"

There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me

Another update.

The Tuberculosis query has finished now. It ran very quickly indeed.

HIV is still running along.

Cancer now has 3 queries running, one of which is due to finish in the next couple of days.

Also due to finish in the next couple of days is the methodology query as mentioned in the previous post. However, a previously completed methodology query has been extended. That would indicate that their has been some promising results from it.

Under the banner of the proteome project, a Diabetes query has now started as well.
"In type II diabetes, the pancreas usually continues to produce insulin but not in sufficient quantities. PTP1B has been shown in recent studies to suppress insulin action. We hope to find molecules which can selectively bind to PTP1B's second site theerby enchancing insulin action without affecting T-cell activation associated with binding at the first site."