Main article: World Community Grid
The World Community Grid is an IBM philanthropic initiative which aims to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. It utilizes both the BOINC and United Devices platforms.
Active Projects
* Human Proteome Folding Project - Phase 2 — predicting functions of proteins in conjunction with rosetta@home.
* FightAIDS@Home — identify candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease.
* Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together — uncover novel drugs to cure dengue hemorrhagic fever, hepatitis C, West Nile encephalitis, and Yellow fever.
* AfricanClimate@Home — develop more accurate climate models of specific regions in Africa.
* Help Conquer Cancer — improve the results of protein X-ray crystallography in order to increase understanding of cancer and its treatment.
Upcoming Projects
* Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 (Starting in 2008)
Completed Projects
* Genome Comparison — finding all possible similarities between predicted proteins and all known genome sequences decoded to date.
* Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Phase I (UD.EXE version only)
* Help Defeat Cancer — analyzes tissue microarrays of breast, head, and neck cancers.
* Smallpox Research
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