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Accelerating the Discovery of a Smallpox Cure
The United Devices Smallpox Research Grid Project, sponsored by IBM in conjunction with several other Research Participants, employed computational chemistry on a massive distributed computing grid to analyze candidates for a medical therapy to fight the smallpox virus.
Combining computer-based screening with grid technology, the project allowed scientists to screen 35 million potential drug molecules against several smallpox proteins to identify good candidates for developing into smallpox treatments.
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Drug Discovery Timeline Reduced from Years to Weeks
One of the largest computational projects ever undertaken, the Smallpox Research Grid Project shaved years off the time required to perform screening of this scale.
In the first 72 hours, 100,000 results were returned. Overall, the project identified 44 strong treatment candidates.
Based on the success of the Smallpox study, World Community Grid was created with the goal of creating a technical environment where other humanitarian research could be processed.
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