Help Conquer Cancer
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Help Conquer Cancer is a volunteer computing project that runs on the BOINC platform. It is a joint project of the Ontario Cancer Institute and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. It is also the first project under World Community Grid to run with a GPU counterpart.{{Cite web |title=Help Conquer Cancer {{!}} Research {{!}} World Community Grid |url=https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hcc1/overview.s |access-date=2022-09-10 |website=www.worldcommunitygrid.org}}
Project Purpose
The goal is to enhance the efficiency of protein X-ray crystallography, which will enable researchers to determine the structure of many cancer-related proteins faster. This will lead to improving the understanding of the function of these proteins, and accelerate the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.
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External links
- [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/WCG/wcg-hcc.html Help Conquer Cancer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117163042/http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/WCG/wcg-hcc.html |date=2010-01-17 }}
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Category:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects
Category:Free science software
Category:Cancer organizations based in Canada
Category:Volunteer computing projects
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