Genome Comparison project Launched!

[V_R]

WCG have just released a new project for us to crunch. The Genome Comparison Project.

Welcome to the “Genome Comparison” project. Your contribution will provide valuable information to researchers around the world, studying proteins function and their roles in disease processes while also contributing to discoveries in medicine and biology. The project is finding, in a consistent and comprehensive manner, all possible similarities between predicted proteins from all of the known genome sequences decoded to date. We thank all of the members of World Community Grid for their valuable contribution to this exciting project form Brasil.

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If you wish to run this project and crunch the workunits, you need to update your prefs by going HERE. Tick the box for the projects you wish to run and hit save.

 

[V_R]

More here

World Community Grid is pleased to launch the Genome Comparison project by Fiocruz in Brazil. This project will perform a pairwise comparison between all predicted proteins in complete genomes available in the public DNA databases. When scientists study a new protein, they look for similar, better-understood proteins as a guide to their function. This in combination with other information will help annotate these genomes leading to faster and better understanding of cellular function and infectious agent relationships. For more detailed information and frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the project, please press the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click here.

In addition to providing information about this project, we have created a forum for discussions about the Genome Comparison project. To participate in this forum, please press the Forums button in the upper navigation bar or click here. Only forum authors with the title "Fiocruz Genome Comparison Scientist" are authorized to comment as representatives of the research organization: Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz).

The Genome Comparison project is one of four projects running on World Community Grid. In addition there is FightAIDS@Home, which has been running on since November of 2005, Help Defeat Cancer, which has been running since July of 2006, and Human Proteome Folding Phase 2, which was recently restarted on World Community Grid. For more detailed information and FAQs about each of these projects, please press the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click here. We thank all of our members for all of their valuable contributions to the projects to date and hope you will continue to help us process those as well as this latest project.

Because there are four research projects running on World Community Grid, your grid agent could receive work units from any of the projects. You may elect to focus your computer's time on only particular projects, if you have a preference. To do so, press the My Grid button in the upper navigation bar and select My Projects or click here.

If you are already a member of World Community Grid, there's nothing that you have to do to prepare for the Genome Comparison project. The next time your grid agent communicates with the servers, it will send you a work unit from one of the projects at random for which your machine meets the minimum requirements and according to your project participation elections. To know which project you are running, please double-click on World Community Grid icon (or BOINC Manager icon if you are running BOINC) in the system tray, and you will see the title of the project in the display.

If you have any questions, World Community Grid provides you with four methods of obtaining assistance: (1) Review the FAQs found in the Help section of the website, (2) Review the forums to see if anyone has asked/answered the question that you have, (3) Ask the question in an appropriate World Community Grid forum found here and a Community Advisor or a more experienced member will provide an answer, and (4) Send an email to the support desk from the Contact Us link found at the bottom of every page of the website.

We thank you for running the Fiocruz Genomic Comparison project.

 

[V_R]

System Specs For The Project

Each research project we run on the World Community Grid has different minimum machines requirements.

At least a 160MHz Intel Pentium™ processor or equivalent
At least 60 MB RAM (with virtual memory enabled)
At least 25 MB free disk space available for use by the project (in the agent install directory)
The ability to display 8-bit graphics at 800x600 resolution
An Internet connection with minimum 40 kbps speed
Operating System: Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP

Very low compared to the other projects.

 

[Ian]

This sounds like quite an interesting project, are others going to opt into this? I might give it a go and see what happens

 

[V_R]

I see no reason not to try it.

I've got it ticked, so just wait and see if i get sent any work for it.

 

[Me__2001]

might as well give it a go

 

[Anon_F]

Yup got it ticked already

 

[V_R]

Just FYI, some of the genome work units are stalling and failing to complete. If you have selected to run these i suggest you keep an eye on BOINC and just check that they are finishing ok.

Its only a small percentage, Personaly i have done three now with no problems.

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[V_R]

An official response from WCG

There was a bug discovered in the recently released Genome Comparison project that would cause the program to sit at 100% CPU utilization and 0% shown completion. If you are stuck at this percentage for more than an hour please follow the instructions below on how to fix this issue.

The latest versions of Genome Comparison have the fix for the 0% issue.

For BOINC:
(Note: this was an issue with version 5.09)

You should hit 'reset project' and then 'update project' in the BOINC Manager. This will allow you to start processing the workunit with version 5.10 the Genome Comparison application.

For UD:
(Note: this was an issue with version 1.0.0.7)
You should go into your task manager and end the process. To do this, select "Start" -> "Run". When that window pops up type taskmgr and press enter. Next you'll see the Windows Task Manager and you'll need to select the "Processes" tab at the top. Then select the name "wcgrid_fcg_ssearch.exe" and press "End Process" button. The new version is 1.0.0.8. The version number is located to the right of the project name in the graphics.

Sorry for any inconvenience and thank for your patience.

-Uplinger

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=9947