It seems from the general discourse I read on these forums that Rosetta will/is mainly being targeted at the proteins involved with the AIDS/HIV dilemma....versus cancer, MS and the host of other diseases.

Not that I care because a live saved is a life saved.

I am just wondering what the intial goal (or shall I say disease) Rosetta is crunching for.

I know that the results can be cross related....just curious now that the number of users will be sky rocketing.....are we taking on work that the World Community Grid or AIDS@home is already fighting?

Thanks and Cheers.

It seems from the general discourse I read on these forums that Rosetta will/is mainly being targeted at the proteins involved with the AIDS/HIV dilemma....versus cancer, MS and the host of other diseases.

Not that I care because a live saved is a life saved.

I am just wondering what the intial goal (or shall I say disease) Rosetta is crunching for.

I know that the results can be cross related....just curious now that the number of users will be sky rocketing.....are we taking on work that the World Community Grid or AIDS@home is already fighting?

Thanks and Cheers.

At the current time, we're not crunching for a disease. It's still early enough in the project that we're working on refining Rosetta itself. Rather than simply using a tool to fight a disease, we're actually helping to design the tool itself.

Once we're done, then quite a large number of things can be targetted. HIV is one, Malaria is another, Cancer, Alzheimers, etc. the list goes on.

David Baker discusses some of that here, but I get the impression that the list he gives in his first post is by no means exhaustive. That's just some targets that they're looking at initially.

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...he may also be confused with what WCG is doing?

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