Insidious
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My curiosity continues and I found answers to some questions about the Rosetta@Home project that I found to be very fulfilling:
Questions about Corporate interests vs. Scientific interests
I cut David Baker's response in the thread I have linked above:
First of all, how many projects have developers who are willing to engage at this level? Only the very best of them.... and Rosetta@Home is one of them. :thumbsup:
Secondly, I am much more interested in forwarding science than the wallets of shareholders.... Apparently, so is Rosetta@Home. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
-Sid
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Questions about Corporate interests vs. Scientific interests
I cut David Baker's response in the thread I have linked above:
Hello,
I have a few quetsions that do not seem to be answered on the wesite:
1) Who will own the results of rosetta@home? Will it be public domain? Will a (private) research institute own it?
2) Will the rosetta@home results lead to the patenting of genes, proteines, etcetera?
3) What's the difference/relation of rosetta@home with folding@home and predictor@home? Aren't you just duplicating research here?
Thanks to anyone who can answer these quetions for me. Oh, and you might want to put these in a FAQ on the site. I don't think I'm the only one who likes to know!
1) Everything will be public domain
2) No, I do not believe in patenting naturally ocurring genes, proteins, etc.
3) Rosetta@home is very different from folding@home. rosetta@home aims to predict naturally
ocurring protein structures and design new and useful ones; folding@home is simulating the process of protein folding. predictor@home is also working on structure prediction, but with a very different method.
First of all, how many projects have developers who are willing to engage at this level? Only the very best of them.... and Rosetta@Home is one of them. :thumbsup:
Secondly, I am much more interested in forwarding science than the wallets of shareholders.... Apparently, so is Rosetta@Home. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
-Sid
[shameless pimping] 😎 We'd love to have you join us 😎 [/shameless pimping]