tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-519774559209656362.post5468729105160908067..comments2023-05-24T09:46:44.491-05:00Comments on ...and Life Goes On, One Day, One Step at a Time: Trip to the ENT doctorBillie Wageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163713810824110443noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-519774559209656362.post-87124132526101238842008-10-07T11:02:00.000-05:002008-10-07T11:02:00.000-05:00I wonder if you've thought of running programs in ...I wonder if you've thought of running programs in the background on your computer to help medical research.<BR/><BR/>This project is the largest I've found that looks likely to eventually help diabetes:<BR/><BR/>http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp<BR/><BR/>This one seems to be medium sized:<BR/><BR/>http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/<BR/><BR/>This one has recently left beta test and doesn't always have anything ready to do:<BR/><BR/>http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org/cels/<BR/><BR/>I have my computer set to contribute to all three, plus four more medical research projects elsewhere. BOINC allows you to do this.<BR/><BR/>None of these projects are specifically trying to help diabetes yet, but they are the BOINC projects I've found so far that look most likely to do it eventually.<BR/><BR/>I've also found a BOINC project trying to find genes related to diabetes, but that one's still in beta test and therefore not ready for me to trust it on my only usable computer.<BR/><BR/>I'm not familiar enough with the details of MG to guess whether these three projects are likely to eventually help with MG.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com