Rosetta@home is a distributed computing project for protein structure prediction on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, run by the Baker laboratory at the University of Washington. Rosetta@home also aims to predict protein-protein docking and design new proteins with the help of over 86,000 volunteered computers processing over 68 teraFLOPS on average. Though much of the project is oriented towards basic research on improving the accuracy and robustness of the proteomics methods, Rosetta@home also does applied research on malaria, Alzheimer's disease and other pathologies. Like all BOINC projects, Rosetta@home uses idle computer processing resources from volunteers' computers to perform calculations on individual workunits. Completed results are sent to a central project server where they are validated and assimilated into project databases. The project is cross-platform, and runs on a wide variety of hardware configurations. Users can view the progress of their individual protein structure prediction on the Rosetta@home screensaver. Rosetta@homeconsistently ranks among the foremost docking predictors, and is one of the best tertiary structure predictors available.

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_________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1640:

John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_IV_of_Portugal)

1824:

The House of Representatives selected John Quincy Adams as the winner of the U.S. presidential election, after none of the candidates received a majority of the total electoral college votes, as dictated by the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1824)

1955:

African-American Civil Rights Movement: Seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for violating the racial segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, precipitating the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks)

1959:

Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in Antarctica and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System)

1990:

Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel)

_______________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

abstemiously (adv) Marked by abstinence or restraint, especially in relation to food or drink. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstemiously)

______________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. --Jacques Barzun (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Barzun)