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Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 60 Credit: 4,221 RAC: 0 |
While there is a lull in crunching, I was wondering if anyone could tell me the difference between these three projects. They all are involved in sequencing proteins. Right? So why have 3 seperate projects been created for the same purpose? Anyone shed some light on this? |
Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 163 Credit: 1,682,370 RAC: 0 |
While there is a lull in crunching, I was wondering if anyone could tell me the difference between these three projects. They all are involved in sequencing proteins. Right? So why have 3 seperate projects been created for the same purpose? Anyone shed some light on this? This link finds some threads at R@H which should answer your questions. Michael Team Linux Users Everywhere |
Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 456 Credit: 75,142 RAC: 0 |
While there is a lull in crunching, I was wondering if anyone could tell me the difference between these three projects. They all are involved in sequencing proteins. Right? So why have 3 seperate projects been created for the same purpose? Anyone shed some light on this? Add Predictor@home to the list... They either do it differently, or in the case of Rosetta are not actually doing it at all but are looking for better ways to do it. See the wiki draft article about this, and the Project Comparison thread on Rosetta for more info edit: ps - nice one Michael - we were posting at the same time but a Google search is a useful thought |
Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 60 Credit: 4,221 RAC: 0 |
While there is a lull in crunching, I was wondering if anyone could tell me the difference between these three projects. They all are involved in sequencing proteins. Right? So why have 3 seperate projects been created for the same purpose? Anyone shed some light on this? |
Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 456 Credit: 75,142 RAC: 0 |
Just like crunching, science is a weird combination of cooperation and competition. The different groups are trying different approaches partly because they each hope to get a significant published result first - that is the competitive part. You might as well say that a planned economy is more efficient that a competitive one - it is the same argument - efficiency, economies of scale, etc etc, but at present the planet seems to have gone for the competitive model not the massively planned one. The different groups are also each trying different strategies as nobody yet knows which will work best. By working on all fronts in parallel there is the best chance that at least one group will reach a breakthrough. This is the cooperative aspect of the multiple approach. Once anyone does make a breakthrough their results will be published - gaining precedence for them (competition) but sharing the info with others freely (cooperation). River~~ |
Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 456 Credit: 75,142 RAC: 0 |
Another good comparison between the protein projects is here - including responses from the scientists at both the Human Genome project and Bakerlab about their different approaches to the Rosetta program. Thanks to Dimitris Hatzopoulos of Einstein@home for this link :) R~~ |
Send message Joined: 26 Nov 05 Posts: 39 Credit: 435,286 RAC: 42 |
I posted to the Project Comparison thread referenced in post #12389 (see post #9868 there) |
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