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29 Apr 2013 – Nutritious Rice for the World project update
The Nutritious Rice for the World project has been post-processing their rice protein structure prediction data computed via World Community Grid. In the process of benchmarking and validating their post-processing technique, they believe they have come up with a better method that will improve the accuracy of the final predictions. This new method will be detailed in a new paper and software update, which will be released to the general protein folding community.  
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27 Sep 2012 – Bioinformatics Application Note published by the Nutritious Rice for the World researchers
A paper was published in the journal Bioinformatics, which describes the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPU's) to accelerate computations comparing protein structures.  
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01 Feb 2012 – Nutritious Rice for the World project update
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums  
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03 May 2011 – Nutritious Rice for the World project update
Project updates from the Nutritious Rice for the World website: May 2008 - May 2011   
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01 Apr 2011 – Nutritious Rice for the World project publishes paper in BioMed Central Research Notes
The Nutritious Rice for the World researchers developed a way to speed postprocessing of the results computed by World Community Grid. They published a paper describing how this was done using Graphical Processing Units, normally used to in computers for games and entertainment.  
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25 May 2010 – A Better Rice for the World - blog article
An interview with Dr. Ram Samudrala, Principal Investigator for the Nutritious Rice for the World project.  
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17 May 2010 – Nutritious Rice for the World project update
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums  
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13 Apr 2010 – End of Nutritious Rice for the World project
World Community Grid is pleased to announce, that as a result of the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Nutritious Rice for the World project finished on April 6, 2010.   
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19 Jan 2010 – Nutritious Rice for the World project update
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums  
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30 Nov 2009 – IBM wins CSR award for rice IT project
Information technology giant IBM was awarded the Asian CSR Award for poverty alleviation for its program, “World Community Grid: Nutritious Rice for the World” during the 8th Asian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awards.  
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