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Why is Phase 2 of the Clean Energy Project an opt-in project?
These calculations require work units that may run longer, have higher memory, disk space and data transfer requirements. Therefore, we are providing the users the option to opt-in to the project.
In addition, The Clean Energy Project is the first World Community Grid project to use an external server. That is, your result data is directly uploaded to the Harvard research server. Security checks are in place to make certain that uploaded data is transferred correctly and validated by the Harvard research server that is receiving the data. World Community Grid controls which servers the data is sent to and the Harvard servers will not send data files to the member machines.
Therefore, if you're interested in advancing the science of solar cells, please help us out in this great effort!
Who are the scientists involved in this study?
The Microbiome Immunity Project brings together researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of California San Diego and the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute.
The Broad Institute brings expertise on the role of the human microbiome in health and disease to the project. By coupling microbiome analysis with the clinical knowledge at Massachusetts General Hospital, they analyze data generated from individuals with these diseases to prioritize genes from bacteria that are relevant in autoimmune diseases such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Type 1 Diabetes.
The Knight Lab at the University of California San Diego brings knowledge on and expertise in microbial genomes. They prepare input data for World Community Grid based on information from the Broad Institute. After obtaining results from World Community Grid, with the help of the Flatiron Institute, they annotate protein functions inferred from structures. The Knight Lab will also coordinate efforts to predict protein-protein interactions and design small molecules. They will also build a resource to collect all of the Microbiome Immunity Project predictions and share them with researchers from around the world.
The Flatiron Institute provides the expertise in predicting protein structure and function. They will work with the Knight Lab to further develop these codes to predict large microbial protein families, about which little is currently known.