The Human Proteome Folding Scientist have provided an update on the Human Proteome Folding – Phase 2 project, which was included in the June, 2009 Newsletter. You may review the newsletter online here, or for your convenience the update is as follows:

Human Proteome Folding – Phase 2, Bonneau Laboratory, New York University, New York, New York, USA
The Human Proteome Folding project is an ongoing effort to automatically annotate the genomes of organisms that have importance to the human race with predictions about protein structure and function. Over the course of our project World Community Grid has helped to produce protein structural annotations for the human genome as well as the genomes of over 80 disease causing bacteria and viruses, model organisms and plants studied heavily by biologists, and other proteins and organisms with an interesting story to tell. One such example is a collection of entirely unique proteins from J. Craig Venter's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition that developed a lot of interest with evolutionary biologists we're in collaboration with (we're examining these predictions and hope to publish our results soon). We're also using World Community Grid structural predictions to make genome-wide predictions about proteins' molecular function, which gives researchers important clues about what tasks each gene might be performing. While our resource for these results is open to researchers and the public, we've spent the past few months developing an intuitive, visual interface that we plan to submit for publishing and release by the end of this summer. We appreciate the great contribution World Community Grid and its crunchers are making toward basic science, and we hope to make the community proud with the positive results and massive scale or our undertaking by publishing a myriad of results this year.

Full Report: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~rb133/wcg/thread_2009_03_24.html