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!RuyLopez
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 Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: Overview |
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Overview
| Welcome to Team CastleCops! The science component of the CastleCops community.
Our mission is twofold:
- To advance scientific research through active participation in selected research projects.
- To advance science education and awareness through the dissemination of knowledge.
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That mission is pursued through various interrelated activities, the objectives of which are:
- To provide individuals the opportunity to contribute directly to various ongoing scientific research projects through a distributed, or cooperative computing scenario.
- To provide individuals the knowledge necessary to achieve a basic understanding of the various research projects.
- To provide computational support and advice to our participating and prospective contributors.
Each project within the Team CastleCops portfolio is administered by a reputable university or independent, non-profit research institution that publishes their results in the open scientific literature.
The projects share the common attribute that the magnitude of the computational analyses is enormous. Thus the distributed computer approach in which many individuals voluntarily donate the idle times on their computers to calculate small portions of the overall solution. This public, cooperative approach gives each of us a rare opportunity to participate actively in the pursuit of new knowledge. A more detailed discussion of the basics of distributed computing as it applies directly to the Team CastleCops projects can be found within the Computational Matters Forum.
The research projects that are currently active under the umbrella of Team CastleCops cover a range of interesting and exciting investigations having both pragmatic and theoretical significance.
A number of Molecular Biology projects focus on the elucidation of protein structure and function. One approach examines the conformational dynamics, or time-dependent “folding”, of biomolecules. The ultimate objective of this project is to better elucidate the relationships between potential deviations from the native 3-dimensional protein structure, concomitant modifications of protein function, and their role in human diseases. A distinct approach attempts to predict protein structure directly from the sequence of the constituent amino acids. The ultimate objective of these investigations is to contribute to the fundamental knowledge necessary to better understand gene expression, and to enable the design of new enzymes and more efficacious drug therapies.
A Climatology project examines long-term models of climatic conditions. The objectives of this project are to scrutinize the validity of the underlying theoretical assumptions that comprise the model, and to explore the relation of atmospheric composition to the potential diverse ramifications of Global Warming.
There are also several projects in fundamental Physics and Astronomy. These projects include an early effort at gravitational wave observational astronomy; high energy particle physics; and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and undiscovered planetary objects.
We cordially invite you to visit all of the Team CastleCops Forums! |
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