Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy
| Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy | |
|---|---|
| Area: | Disease control |
| Target: | Enabling the healing of muscular dystrophy |
| Operator: | Decrypthon, CNRS and University of Strasbourg , Infrastructure sponsored by IBM |
| Country: | France |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | http://www.ihes.fr/~carbone/HCMDproject.htm |
| Project status | |
| Status: | active |
| Start: | May 13, 2009 |
| The End: | May 6, 2013 |
Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy is a World Community Grid project for distributed computing . The aim of the project is to calculate protein-protein interactions that are associated with muscular dystrophy . The calculation of protein-protein interactions will allow researchers to design molecules that inhibit or promote bonds between proteins. This is said to lead to better treatment of neuromuscular diseases.
In the first phase of the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project (December 19, 2006 to June 11, 2007), the interaction of 168 proteins was calculated (8,000 years of computing time had to be applied). In the second phase, the protein-protein interactions of 2,246 proteins are calculated, so that 91,680 years of computing time have to be invested.
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 , Linux and Mac as part of the BOINC software. This program then gets a task package from the website.
The results of the calculations are made available to research in the public domain.