There is literally nothing on the website that talks about what Curecoin is actually accomplishing, future goals, or how the computing power is being utilized
You're really asking CureCoin, a folding team specializing in cryptocurrency, to speak and publish on behalf of Pande Labs and Folding@Home - a group of molecular biologists who take months between publishing academic papers. Much of this research is just entering its infancy. Pande Labs is developing algorithms using deep learning to narrow the search for drugable states of proteins. With next generation hardware, they will be able to take advantage of the resources our community provides. Unfortunately, if they don't publish it, we can't make it up
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And what they do publish is sometimes too difficult for the layman to interpret without waiting for a medical journal article to be published months later.
Occasionally we beat them to the punch however - reporting on Pande Lab and Folding@Home community progress using social media before they have a chance to publish on their own web pages:
We are actually all proud of this one:
Conformational heterogeneity of the calmodulin binding interface"Finally, our model predicts a novel binding interface that is well-populated in the Ca2+-bound regime and, thus, a candidate for pharmacological intervention"
Through social media, we've reported on articles which reference Her2 Kinase discoveries related to the treatment of Breast and Prostate Cancers as well as drug compounds uncovered by the Folding@Home community currently in trials by the NIH for the treatment of Alzheimer's.
HKUST (Stanford's partner University in Hong Kong) is currently processing the results from a year of running Diabetes Type II beta sheet simulations. I believe thanks in part to the HEAVY lift of the CureCoin team early on with Chrome NaCl work units run in the AWS cloud, they were able to collect results ahead of schedule - but since they have a policy of being "team agnostic", no single team will ever be recognized, and we really feel too humble to constantly tout our numbers
(like moving into the #4 spot on Folding@home in under a year (in Folding@Home's 15 year history).
If you look at the
folding@home reddit ... you'll find many of the top up-voted posts and suggestions come from CureCoin team members. And many of our members are beta testers for new projects and work units coming out of Folding@home. So they sacrifice their points so the whole community can fold without hardware or software related interruptions.
We'll try to publish more science to the home page in the future. I'm thinking of highlighting some of the research discoveries in the May post. Also we're looking at starting a weekly email newsletter exclusively for folders.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I didn't realize the facebook page was actually where the main source of news is posted, since on the curecoin website, the only link is the facebook F, and is not under 'knowledge base' or 'community'. Maybe just put a link that says "News" on the curecoin site that directs to the facebook page.
I would still personally get something from the scientists for the public to read, even if it's one sentence, something is always better than nothing. Even just a scientist saying he appreciates the funding from curecoin, or that ts has helped research. I think it would look really good on the curecoin website.
Thanks for sharing some links.