Docking@Home

Docking@Home was a distributed computing project hosted by the University of Delaware and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. The ultimate aim was the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.

The project was retired on May 23, 2014.[1]

Docking@home screensaver

See also

References

  1. "Docking@Home is Retiring".

Further reading

  • "Computer Idle? Now You Can Donate Its Time to Find a Cure for Major Diseases". Newswise. June 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
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