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Help Conquer Cancer

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A distributed computing project, hosted on World Community Grid. It uses the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform.

Quoted from their website:

Our goal is to improve the results of protein X-Ray crystallography. Improving the protein crystallography pipeline will enable researchers to determine the structure of many cancer-related proteins faster.

... importantly, improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression and treatment.