With all the pretty pictures cluttering this thread, it is very hard for casual seekers of knowledge to find any information.

Nevertheless.

I have seen a preview of the work being done by the Fiocruz team with the help of IBM, and it will undoubtedly be worth the wait. It is easy to see why this stage of the project takes so long. This is no toy database, it is a fully-fledged ontology tool.

I understand they are very close to launching it, now. Be warned, though: it is going to be totally opaque to anyone outside the very narrow field. Personally, I understood maybe one word in three. :-D

For me it is not about who has a faster telephone system, it is about what I can do to help the people around me. I would love to have a large rack with 1,000 Quad computers so that I could work on every project. I believe that all the scientists understand that we want feedback so that we can be encouraged to continue to help. It is ridiculous to suggest that the scientists MUST respond in some arbitrary time frame that has no basis in logic or fact. The request for information is reasonable, it is the time frame that is not reasonable. Let them do their job and be patient with them.

Why the big demands? I understand that you may be disappointed.
Their report depends on the reader and since they are primarily responsible for reporting to the scientific community, the complexity of their report may only be fully understandable by a scientist. At the same time, the more people that understand their research, the more will be interested in the results.