Help Fight Childhood Cancer
| Help Fight Childhood Cancer | |
|---|---|
| Area: | Disease control |
| Target: | Finding a drug for neuroblastoma |
| Operator: | Chiba University, infrastructure sponsored by IBM |
| Country: | Japan |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | http://www.m.chiba-u.ac.jp/class/bioinfor/wcg/e/hfcc_e/index.html |
| Project status | |
| Status: | active |
| Start: | March 16, 2009 |
| The End: | still active |
Help Fight Childhood Cancer is a World Community Grid project for distributed computing . The aim of the project is to find a drug against neuroblastoma (one of the most common forms of cancer in childhood). Three proteins have been linked to neuroblastoma - this project aims to find a drug that makes these proteins unusable.
Help Fight Childhood Cancer consists of 9 million chemical experiments, each of which would take hours on a single computer - a total of 8,000 years to calculate. World Community Grid performs these calculations in parallel and dramatically speeds up the calculation time. It is assumed that the project will be calculated within 2 years or less.
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.