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WCGAdmin
World Community Grid Admin Joined: Jun 9, 2020 Post Count: 171 Status: Offline |
Smash Childhood Cancer and Help Stop TB concluded their phase with the WCG and are providing us with a final update.
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=817 |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7666 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The overview page still needs to be updated from "intermittent" to "Completed".
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2160 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The overview page still needs to be updated from "intermittent" to "Completed". Certainly, and indeed, there are some more places that need to be updated. To name a few ... Maybe that last named table is a good starting point. Adri |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7666 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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A much more comprehensive list by Adri.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I hope we get science updates soon on each of these projects.
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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2358 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thks you all for the great achievement in SCC & Help Stop TB !
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Robokapp
Senior Cruncher Joined: Feb 6, 2012 Post Count: 249 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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did we stop TB and childhood cancer?
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Dayle Diamond
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jan 31, 2013 Post Count: 452 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Two projects are ending, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
----------------------------------------Announcement released late at night while a majority of readers are on holiday. In journalism, this is called a 'news dump.' --------------------------------------------------------- The lab focusing on childhood cancers is now part of a $25 million USD project to test the compounds we've identified years ago, founded this year with a new name. I've checked the website and there's no mention of WCG or the thousands of citizen scientists - there's a new donors list with big institutions, like MIT and the government of France. If all goes well, these institutions will get full credit, and we get a 'final update' that our contributions have inspired young people to get into science. I'm glad they have a stable funding source, but a majority of their resources came from us. (Think of the value of our donation as the averted cost of renting 57,048 core-years, in 2017, from for-profit servers). Our donations are bearing fruit, and we deserve just as much credit and just as many updates as the secondary donors. ----------------------------------------------------------- As for the Croft lab, focusing on the fatty layer that protects tuberculosis from normal medicines, wants to use Artificial intelligence to handle the last decade of results but after a decade they don't have a person assigned to handle that. They're promising future updates, but WCG calls it their final update. It's pretty clear why - if the scientists who designed the calculations didn't stick around to interpret the answers, finding a new person who'll understand it all may be daunting. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Dayle Diamond at Nov 29, 2024 8:54:49 AM] |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I agree. We deserve a science update.
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 801 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but I seem to recall an update sometime mid-2024 (or early 2024) that there would be more SCC1 work coming. If that's a true memory, then they probably just put a hard stop to their WCG work when their business model changed.
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