Yet another new project - [url=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/hcmd2/viewHcmd2Main.do]Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2
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World Community Grid and researchers supported by Decrypthon, a partnership between AFM (French Muscular Dystrophy Association), CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, and IBM are investigating protein-protein interactions for more than 2,200 proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases. The database of information produced will help researchers design molecules to inhibit or enhance binding of particular macromolecules, hopefully leading to better treatments for muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular diseases.

What is neuromuscular disease and muscular dystrophy?
Neuromuscular disease is a generic term for a group of disorders (more than 200 in all) that impair muscle functioning either directly through muscle pathology (muscular dystrophy) or indirectly through nerve pathology. Most of them are rare (affecting less than one person in 2,000), have a genetic origin (80%) and affect both children and adults. These chronic diseases lead to a decrease in muscle strength, causing serious disabilities in motor functions (moving, breathing etc.). Disease expression is variable; some disorders are progressive, while others remain stable for several years, and the same disease can cause different symptoms from one person to the next.

Despite advances in therapeutic techniques, there is currently no curative treatment available for persons affected by neuromuscular diseases.

Got a close friend who suffers, so when I've reached my target on GL(100k), will switch rigs back to WCG.

Should hit "silver" tomorrow.

Way to go! I'm not crunching the grid right now, although I have over 70K credits on WCG now. I don't know when I'll crunch it again, but it's always a pleasure to feel like contributing to such nice projects. One thing's sure, I'll crunch it all the way on December for the Race anyway.

Just another 23 days 16 hrs of runtime for "Gold". Should hit that before the next potm

It's a long haul isn't it?

I forgot to change my project preferences over to HCMD so I don't even have my "Bronze" badge there yet . I've just changed over project preferences so I should get it in a few weeks...

I'm currently gold for:

Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together 201,228 1,403 0:124:03:29:57
FightAIDS@Home 710,903 1,379 1:097:03:26:38
Help Conquer Cancer 1,043,953 2,015 1:262:17:41:04
Help Fight Childhood Cancer 518,793 834 0:317:23:12:11
Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 615,918 1,099 1:034:06:19:26
Influenza Antiviral Drug Search 189,525 291 0:107:11:45:22
Nutritious Rice for the World 799,533 984 1:029:17:41:37
The Clean Energy Project 270,313 199 0:139:20:46:04

You're indeed a powercruncher! That's some solid numbers, way to go!

Same here, except you're way ahead on points

Just remember WCG credit does not equal BOINC credit!

Well, I know that. But still, you need a whole power farm to crunch that much of WCG, as I know already that you crunch for a lot more projects in addition to it.

Done it. Should show "Gold" on next update.

Congratulations! I should be getting my "Bronze" status any day now...

You're right about the long haul. This project took 840 results to get gold. Switched back to all projects.

Now at "Bronze"...

Finally got my Gold status! Now for the new badge levels...