FightAIDS @ Home
| FightAIDS @ Home | |
|---|---|
| Area: | Disease control |
| Target: | Test of possible drugs against the HI virus |
| Operator: | several, infrastructure sponsored by IBM |
| Country: | International |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | http://www.fightaidsathome.org/ |
| Project status | |
| Status: | active |
| Start: | 09/26/2000 |
| The End: | still active |
FightAIDS @ Home is a World Community Grid project for distributed computing . The aim of the project is to find new drugs for the treatment of HIV- infected people. The project is supported by IBM worldwide. In Germany, Heilbronn University is participating in the project as a partner. A private German information page has been available since December 21, 2005.
To participate, after registering on the World Community Grid website, a small program (the so-called "Grid Client") must be installed, which is available for Windows and now also for Linux and Mac as part of the BOINC software. This program then gets a task package from the website.
At FightAIDS @ Home, this package of tasks consists of simulations designed to test which drug is most suitable for “docking” with the HI virus. The drugs that appear most suitable after the simulations have been completed are then checked for suitability in clinical tests. By simulating beforehand with the help of “distributed computing”, the expensive clinical tests can be used as effectively as possible.
The results of the calculations should be made available to research in the public domain.
