Lupus project?

[LotharJade]

Is there a distributed computing project to help find a cure for the disease Lupus? I and some friends would be interesting in joining if there was one. :heart:

 

[Insidious]

I don't recall reading about one, but it might be out there.

Folding@Home or Find-a-Drug would be great practice for you until it arrives.

-Sid

 

[BlackMountainCow]

There is none as far as I know. Maybe it's too rare of a disease. But I wouldn't give up the hope about it. I personally would have never thought that the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease would become part of the Find-a-Drug project, but it did.

 

[Ken g6]

Find-a-Drug may have the most useful projects for you. The "Respiratory Diseases" targets are becoming more anti-inflammatory (for asthma), and might help lupus. The MS targets also seem to have to do with autoimmune diseases, but nothing's been done on them this year.

 

[LotharJade]

I am doing Find-a-Drug, but I was curious if someone was reasearching that directly.

 

[bob4432]

Bringing this old thread from the dead, any Lupus related DC projects? Or auto-immune in general if Lupus is too specific?

 

[petrusbroder]

I have not found any specific Lupus project and not any specific project for auto-immune disorders. Those which come closest are Rosetta@home and POEM@home.

 

[bob4432]

Just found this one, need to look into it a bit more when I have some time. Also need to figure out if cpu or gpu is better. Have 2 machines, a bit older, one Intel, one AMD, both quad cores that could be put to use. Or wonder if 1 new gen Intel is more efficient than the 2 older ones I have...research...

http://goo.gl/A57W9w

I have not found any specific Lupus project and not any specific project for auto-immune disorders. Those which come closest are Rosetta@home and POEM@home.

 

[petrusbroder]

Just found this one, need to look into it a bit more when I have some time. Also need to figure out if cpu or gpu is better. Have 2 machines, a bit older, one Intel, one AMD, both quad cores that could be put to use. Or wonder if 1 new gen Intel is more efficient than the 2 older ones I have...research...

http://goo.gl/A57W9w

This is a team (a number of users) who have crunched for World Community Grid. However, no Lupus project ...

 

[bob4432]

Makes sense why I couldn't find the project...Thanks for the explanation

This is a team (a number of users) who have crunched for World Community Grid. However, no Lupus project ...