First Computational International Effort to Fight Avian Flu

The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases today announced the release of the first avian influenza target to its Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL) distributed computing project.

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The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases Launches First International Effort to Fight Malaria

Computational efforts focus on making medicines to prevent leading cause of death and morbidity in the developing world

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International Effort to Fight SARS Sets New Ground: Over 50,000 Computers From 93 Countries Come Together to Combat SARS

The Rothberg Insititute marks this milestone with the much anticipated version 2.0 of D2OL software for their Bio-terrorism / Emerging Pathogen project.

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Rothberg Institute Leveraging Internet to Mount First Computer-Based Effort Against SARS
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-Internet Enables Worldwide Network of Computing Power to Grow Exponentially-
The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases, a non-profit research institute devoted to discovering and developing drugs for orphan childhood diseases, today announced the addition of a recently discovered SARS target to its D2OL (Drug Design and Optimization Lab) grid computing project.

SARS report (3:00) - PRI's The World

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence or SETI project, based at the University of Calfornia at Berkeley, uses a screensaver program to harness the computing power of four million volunteers to analyze data. Now, scientists are using that same idea to crunch the calculations necessary to find a drug treatment for SARS. The World's Clark Boyd has the story.

Dr. Bonnie Gould
bgould@childhooddiseases.org