DNA@Home – University of North Dakota

merging projects Hi Everyone,

Here's an update to the status of DNA@Home.

Currently, I have a student who has been working on getting files in the appropriate format for the application here. I think we're pretty close to getting work units sent back out. As opposed to what we were doing before, the new data files are from the human genome, and we'll be looking for protein binding sites that could potentially be related to different cancer causing genes -- I will get more information from this from our biologists here.

I also want to merge DNA@Home, Wildlife@Home and SubsetSum@Home so I can more easily provide feedback. I'm open to suggestions on how to do this. Right now I'm thinking about moving all the accounts into a new project and then have a combined forum for all three. If anyone has any good suggestions for an easy way to merge the three, I'd appreciate it.

Will have more updates, and hopefully more work units soon.

--Travis 23 Dec 2013, 17:46:48 UTC Comment

more updates Sorry for things being so slow here, too many projects going on at once on top of being a new faculty member!

However, I have some pretty interesting news for the project. Two new professors have joined University of North Dakota this year who are working on epigenomics. So we'll be able to use the same algorithms and client applications currently being used by DNA@Home to analyze segments of the human genome -- in part to help understand cancer formation.

I'm hoping to be sending out some new workunits using new data (from the human genome!) as soon as we can get it cleaned up and processed.

--Travis 27 Sep 2012, 16:25:01 UTC Comment

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