But of course you cannot buy a super computer with any where near the power of the distrubuted net.
Bysides, the project is exactly what drug companies do try to do. The molecule dooking software fo rthe this part of the ud.com project is writen by someone who develops software for drug companies.
However, it takes them years to come up with a few target molecules because they cannot throw enough CPU power at the screening.....
so again this is a good idea.
Please don't forget the project is being carried out by Oxford University's Centre for Computational Drug Discovery - a unique 'virtual centre' funded by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR), which is based in the Department of Chemistry.
Not a pharmaceutical company!
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But of course you cannot buy a super computer with any where near the power of the distrubuted net. Bysides, the project is exactly what drug companies do try to do. The molecule dooking software fo rthe this part of the ud.com project is writen by someone who develops software for drug companies. However, it takes them years to come up with a few target molecules because they cannot throw enough CPU power at the screening..... so again this is a good idea.
Please don't forget the project is being carried out by Oxford University's Centre for Computational Drug Discovery - a unique 'virtual centre' funded by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR), which is based in the Department of Chemistry. Not a pharmaceutical company!