Well done, boys!!

Great ! Thank You for the update :)

Thanks to share this, happy to see that we are helpful :)

Here follows the current list of our contributions, links to papers will be provided when published.

I don't understand the science, but you seem to have found one of the better biomedical applications for BOINC.
It appears to have wide applicability, and is the type of thing that no single company would do. It benefits from public volunteer participation.

More publications added

Hi team,

It would be rather nice to read something clearer about what are we doing, what do we want to achieve, how many work units (experiments) are planned, what would be a possitive finding...etc.

I feel I know very little about this project.

Thx¡
Javi

Something to remember with research, is that it is rarely possible to say in advance, how long, how many, how much etc. What tends to happen is that a project starts with a good idea of where it is going, but as the results start drifting back, some suprises appear, these can lead to additional types of jobs, different techniques etc. If you look at the history of other BOINC projects, you will see this again and again.

Hi,

Somehow, I agree and disagree at the same time :D

Technically speaking, we "know" what are we sending to crunch. There must be a "start" and "end" set of possibilities, and we also know if there is something interesting in case X, we investigate deepper (which we can't predict, I agree).

Now is like crunching all genes of the world or?

If we go to science status, all 3 organism are "on hold"...

In that case...wouldn't be interesting to add something to "science status" link?

If you go there, all is on hold and you can get no clue how far are we with current experiment (no need to know the exact % but the current information is almost useless...we dont know whether 1 day or 1 billion years is remaining).

It looks definetely better¡

Thx for the updates :)

By the way...It would be rather interesting to understand what is included in each "task / work unit".
What is it's relation to each Gene/Isoform?

We can see X tasks being crunched and Y Genes per day, number are quite different.

I am just curious...

Thx in advance¡
Javi

Great.

So a total of 87554 genes /isoforms * 294 tasks / each (we dont count here resends) = 25.74 Million tasks.

We need at least 2 tasks to have a "valid" result so: 25.74 * 2 = 51.48 Millions tasks.

If we are doing now 26 genes a day (average) this means a returning rate of 26 * 254 ( * 2 to be valid) = 13K tasks / day?

If this is the case, we definetely need to gain computing power somewhere :D

>>> we definetely need to gain computing power somewhere

I wonder how many times that has been said by the folk at the various projects!

I think one of the biggest problems is that the projects and BOINC in general, are not well known. I sent e-mails to the companies that do the "after the news" evening chat shows suggesting a five minute slot to push BOINC generally, but never had a reply.

Another problem I discovered is the licensing of BOINC, it contains wording with warnings saying that it "has never caused problems", "used without issue by millions", etc. etc. I tried to get permission from the local council to put BOINC on the general purpose computers in the local library, they refused saying they could not trust it because of this, rather soft, wording. I could assure the council it was harmless as I'd never had any trouble with it, or the older Seti@Home that was the predecessor of BOINC in the last centuary, but that is just me.
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Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

Probably the best way to get known is just to list TN-Grid in the BOINC projects list. I hope they have taken care of that for the next BOINC release. Otherwise, it will be an uphill struggle.

A GPU version would do it. There are volunteers around on the various projects who may have the expertise to do it, if they know about it.