Launch of the Nutritious Rice for the World Project
World Community Grid is pleased to launch the Nutritious Rice for the World project by the University of Washington's Computational Biology Research Group, Seattle, Washington, USA. The mission of the Nutritious Rice for the World project is to predict the structure of proteins of major strains of rice. The intent is to help farmers develop better rice strains with higher crop yields, promote greater disease and pest resistance, and utilize a full range of bioavailable nutrients that can benefit those people in regions where hunger is a critical concern.
Project Badge
If a member contributes a minimum of 14 days of CPU Run Time to this project, they will receive a Nutritious Rice for the World badge on their member statistics page and next to their member name when they post in the forums. There is a different badge for each research project and beta testing. To read more about badges, click here.
Forums
In addition to providing information about this project, we have created a forum for discussions about the Nutritious Rice for the World 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 "Nutritious Rice for the World -Scientist" are authorized to comment as representatives of the research organization: University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, USA).
Project Participation
Nutritious Rice for the World is the tenth research project to be launched on World Community Grid and one of six projects currently active. The other five active research projects are: Help Conquer Cancer (launched November, 2007), AfricanClimate@Home (launched August, 2007), Discover Dengue Drugs – Together (launched August, 2007), Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 (launched July, 2006) and FightAIDS@Home (launched November, 2005). For more detailed information and FAQs about each of these projects, please click on the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click here. We thank all of our members for 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 six 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. Please note that members were not automatically opted in to the AfricanClimate@Home project due to the computationally intensive code. To read more specifics on the system requirements for Nutritious Rice for the World and the other projects, click here.
If you are already a member of World Community Grid, running the BOINC version of our software, there's nothing that you have to do to prepare for the Nutritious Rice for the World 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 election preference. To know which project you are running, please double-click on World Community Grid icon in the system tray, and you will see the title of the project in the display.
To contribute to the Nutritious Rice for the World project, you will need to be running the BOINC software rather than the United Devices software. If you are running the United Devices version of our software, you should use this occasion to migrate to the BOINC software so that you may participate in all current and future research projects. You may migrate to BOINC by following the instructions here. Migrating is easy and takes less than 5 minutes. The install process even uninstalls the UD software for you automatically. As you know, World Community Grid is migrating fully to BOINC and will no longer support UD after June 30, 2008. For more information about the BOINC migration, click here.
Questions?
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; or (4) Send an email to the support desk from the Contact Us link found at the bottom of every page of the website (except in the forums).
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