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World Community Grid launched a new project, tackling world hunger. Nutritious Rice for the World is studying the structure of rice proteins to help inform cross-breeding efforts. "The intent is to help farmers breed better rice strains with higher crop yields, promote greater disease and pest resistance, and utilize a full range of bioavailable nutrients that can benefit people around the world, especially in regions where hunger is a critical concern."
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 Nutritious Rice for the World, AfricanClimate@Home, Help Conquer Cancer, Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together, FightAIDS@Home and Human Proteome Folding Phase 2.
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Statistics for 9 July 2008
Total points: 663 492 606
Active members: 610
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amusedgeek 34 741 9 348 885 4
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binocorp 14 030 4 169 458 21
sleeping 11 546 2 826 265 47
cthomasson 11 523 3 059 444 44
downtowndan 11 351 4 704 907 17
mangaskahn 11 135 6 552 135 8
Cordalth 10 818 3 570 456 32
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FST777 10 099 2 826 752 46
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