New cruncher, looking for a specific project

[hoihoi8]

Hello,

I recently cracked into the top 50 of the AMDUsers Bionic crew!

I'm really interested in sequencing the genetic information of humans and animals. Does anyone know of or have a link to a project like that?

[AMDave]

Welcome to the AMD Users Forum, hoihoi8.

Congratulations on breaking into the top 50 team members in WCG BOINC.
Your rise in WCG has been a great and rewarding effort over the last 7 months.
That was on Feb-2.
You are now 21st!
Good crunching.

There are other BOINC folding & docking projects
POEM@home (http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/)
Proteins@home (http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/)
Rosetta@home (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/)
TANPAKU (http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php)
Docking@home (http://docking.cis.udel.edu/) (closed membership at the moment)
Predictor@home (http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/) (relocated but almost ready to restart)

Also there is Folding@home (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=13129) - a very popular non-boinc project.

Thanks for posting in the forum.
Hope to see you here again soon.

AMDave

[vaughan]

Greetings hoihoi8 and welcome to the forum. Looks like you have a strong interest in Biochemistry. Care to elaborate on why you like this area?

[hoihoi8]

I'm particularly interested in life extension research. I saw this talk (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39) a while back and it got me excited.

I also think that once we sequence a majority of the animal genomes we can start using the useful pieces they have evolved to make medicines and improve the human body.

Things like the salamanders regrowing a leg. I personally find sleeping (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-08/965504574.Zo.r.html)a giant waste of my time on earth, so find a way to change our genes to minimize the need for sleep, people would have much more time to enjoy life instead of working 8 out of the 16 hours a day you are awake.

If we were able to incorporate the amazing eyes of some animals to humans, we could greatly reduce our emissions through lighting. For example, if we had an equal eye to a cat, we could cut all light wattage by a ~2/3 since a cat's eyesight is so good in the dark.

Once we understand our genes and other animals genes better, we can start doing things like this.

I'm pretty excited for the next 100 years of scientific advancement.

[Frederic Brillouet]

I'm particularly interested in life extension research. I saw this talk (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39) a while back and it got me excited.

I also think that once we sequence a majority of the animal genomes we can start using the useful pieces they have evolved to make medicines and improve the human body.

Things like the salamanders regrowing a leg. I personally find sleeping (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-08/965504574.Zo.r.html)a giant waste of my time on earth, so find a way to change our genes to minimize the need for sleep, people would have much more time to enjoy life instead of working 8 out of the 16 hours a day you are awake.

If we were able to incorporate the amazing eyes of some animals to humans, we could greatly reduce our emissions through lighting. For example, if we had an equal eye to a cat, we could cut all light wattage by a ~2/3 since a cat's eyesight is so good in the dark.

Once we understand our genes and other animals genes better, we can start doing things like this.

I'm pretty excited for the next 100 years of scientific advancement.

I like your way of thinking.

[drezha]

Thats a fairly extreme view of things!:icon_wink:

Not that I don't think it's a bad idea but I run Biology projects to help stop disease. Any extra benefits are good :) Possibly. Wont catch me running around with cats eyes yet:icon_lol:

[sentient_life]

Wont catch me running around with cats eyes yet:icon_lol:

Yah, leave that stuff to Michael Jackson in 'Thriller'. I think eagle or owl's eyes would be good. Aren't they able to keep everything in focus, even a mile away? No glasses for me!

[hoihoi8]

Thats a fairly extreme view of things!:icon_wink:

Maybe according to todays standards, but what would people from 1900 think of computers, brain surgery, heart transplants, cloning, DNA, knowing the human genome sequence, or any of the other amazing things they've discovered and accomplished over the last 100 years. I'm sure that would be extreme to them.

Those types of things I mentioned above almost certainly will happen, but I'm talking a century out (which I hope to still be alive and kicking at the ripe age of 126 :) ).