2 posts tagged “protein”
Rosetta@Home is the website for a project that uses a screensaver to analyze proteins that could lead to the cures of major diseases, such as cancer. Everyday they feature a different user as their "user of the day". Today I am that user so that is pretty cool. I am always wanting to build up a team of Rosetta@Home users to be on my "Team M.I.A.", but it hasn't quite happened, yet.
Here is a screenshot ...
If you ever join Rosetta@Home, and you download their screensaver, there will be an option (on the website, not the screensaver, I think) to join one of the teams. Please join my Team M.I.A. ...
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=3302
The cool thing about this screensaver is that it is basically harnessing the power of thousands (or more?) computers out there to act like one supercomputer. The more people who use the screensaver, the faster it will get its job done.
I'm such a nerd about Rosetta@Home that I made 2 YouTube videos about it a while back ...
The videos combine clips from M.I.A.'s songs (all of them) with images of her and images/video of the BOINC screensaver ...
I have actually posted about this before, but I didn't have a cool video to accompany the post back then so here I am again. Anyway, I have been using this BOINC screensaver for a very long time. The screensaver is associated with a project called Rosetta@Home, and what it does is analyze proteins to try to find a cure for major diseases, such as cancer, HIV, Alzheimer's, diabetes, etc. It's a cool idea, and I feel like something really good will come out of it so that's why I have been using it for years. I am not the only, there are tons of people who have it as their screensaver, and they form teams sometimes.
There are leaderboards that show which teams have earned the most credits (you get credit for all the information that you upload to Rosetta@Home from the work that has been done with your screensaver). I would like people to join my M.I.A. Team so we can earn tons of credits and get M.I.A.'s name on the top of the leaderboards (I get ambitious about the weirdest things).
Anyway, if you would like to join my team, go here and sign up or you can sign up for Rosetta@Home, go to Community, find Teams, and search for M.I.A.
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=3302 <--- Join my team M.I.A.!
Here is my recruitment/propaganda video ...
The music is not an M.I.A. remix ... it's just a bunch of clips from all of her songs thrown together. Not all of her songs got included due to the 10-minute time restraint so there may be a second "recruitment" video down the line.
The image of M.I.A. in the video is from an incomplete drawing by Mikee from the M.I.A. Fans message board. The drawing is complete now, and you can contact him at http://myspace.com/mikee81889 if you need more information.
Here is the image ...
Download the BOINC screensaver from Rosetta@Home and join the M.I.A. Team today! =)
