World Community Grid passes 820,000 years of donated computation time towards finding new genetic predictors of cancer
World Community Grid passes 820,000 years of donated computation time towards finding new genetic predictors of cancer
www.worldcommunitygrid.org MCM team update: ADH6
We continue our work on characterizing lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on ADH6, a gene associated with smoking status and lung cancer prognosis.
World Community Grid is a volunteer computing project where people can donate their computer's spare computational power to science (similar to folding@home). This week they announced some results of their research and having passed the 800,000 CPU-year mark which is pretty incredible.
Previous discoveries from WCG have included new cancer markers for lung cancer, new candidates for high-efficiency materials for solar panels, and more.
