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The (D2OL)™ software is downloaded to your personal computer and given drug candidates to
evaluate. Once your computer receives tasks to execute, it begins a candidate evaluation process
similar to finding the right key to fit into a lock. Distributed computing technology enables the
process of sending hundreds of thousands of possible keys to all computing devices participating in
the network. This site manages the results generated and returned to the network once you connect
again to the internet. As a user, no intervention is required and the software executes as long as it
is turned on, even when disconnected from the Internet.
By applying our tested platform which uniquely takes advantage
of all available computing devices within its community including
personal computers, servers and eventually devices like TiVo(tm)
and the Xbox™, we are applying massive, cost-effective computing
power to combat major health concerns and potential future threats.
Using this computing power, our proprietary methodology to
identify targets (focusing on epidemiology, drugability and
the target's role in the pathogen's lifecycle) and collaborating
with experts in computational chemistry and structure based
drug design, the (D2OL)™ initiative is working to improve our
society's ability to respond to the ever increasing threats
in a timely manner.
this page last reviewed October
1, 2004
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