A new project has launched on World Community Grid. Designed to have a rapid effect on current cancer treatment, Help Defeat Cancer analyses tissue microarrays to study biomarkers and identify new subclasses of cancer and the best treatment strategy for all types of cancer.

Our new target is to reach 500 active members. Remember, an active member is one who returned a result in the last seven days.

The World Community Grid is a grid computing project whose mission "[...] is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity." Their current projects are Help Defeat Cancer, FightAIDS@Home and Human Proteome Folding Phase 2.

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Statistics for 24 September 2006
Total points: 57 631 723
Active members: 337

Top 10: (Full stats)

Member            Yesterday       Total  Rank
heymrmessy           27 770   3 115 427     1
manxmania            14 204   1 354 843     5
boink                13 553   1 472 853     4
Iarann               10 320   1 211 895     6
Havoc-UFie            8 709   2 596 815     2
letunerd              8 525     656 064    16
labradoodle           7 345     760 300    12
TimTheEnchanter       6 311     424 467    32
mjfulk                5 850     428 066    30
AtticusFinch          5 636     253 791    48

• return_zero

• AtticusFinch: 250 000
• KM6RW: 50 000
• Seth Conyers: 100 000
• Wesleyds: 50 000
• yargion: 50 000

Last team we overtook: Marist College Information Technology

This will be a daily post, if there are no objections. Please, come and help out. I really can't think of a better use for my spare CPU cycles, or yours either.

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