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Docking@Home is a collaborative project that aims to accomplish both bioscience and computer science goals. From the bioscience point of view, the project aims to further knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand interactions and, by doing so, will search for insights into the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals. From the computer science point of view, this project aims to extend volunteer computing to enable adaptive multi-scale modeling of the docking applications: different models that represent the same phenomena in nature with different level of accuracy and resource requirements will be chosen at run-time based on results collected so far and characteristics of the protein-ligand complex. Docking@Home involves collaboration among the University of Delaware, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), and the University of California - Berkeley and is powered by BOINC. Docking@Home is part of the DAPLDS project (or Dynamically Adaptive Protein-Ligand Docking System project) and is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).


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Apr 29, 2008 8:20:00
It was a while ago when we updated our volunteers. In the meanwhile Arun Rajendran has joined our group as a post-doc and will dedicate his time to make sure that D@H will be back for this summer. Stay tuned!

Mar 2, 2008 22:30:00
We are diligently working to get our needed HR changes into the new boinc server code (we want to make clean changes and not a fast hack). Also as you can see we are working on a nicer movie for the home page. Let us know what you think!

Feb 26, 2008 16:15:00
The test batch of workunits we send out have generally been crunched on okay, but it has come out that the HR currently in BOINC does not work for us. We wanted to see if the fine HR would be fine enough for Docking, but it turns out not to be and we need to go back to our much finer grained homegrown HR algorithm. It will take a bit of time to incorporate this into the latest BOINC source as the HR code has changed substantially. Also, we have found out that our backup system is putting quite a load on the D@H server during the night (in the US). So much in fact that the webserver doesn't get enough cycles to stay up and respond to requests. We are looking for a resolution for this. Thanks!

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