Preparing for next stage in FightAIDS@Home Phase 2

The World Community Grid project FightAIDS@Home released an update today, which describes their preparations for the next stage of Phase 2. Phase 1 is still running, while Phase 2 targets new approaches from its result.

Researchers on Phase 2 now plans to write a new paper and test new compounds, as part of their continued research for new and better treatments.

AIDS and HIV is once again in the watch scope of global eyes, as WHO 1, 2 and Medscape reports about multi-drug resistent HIV.

It's estimated that around 36 million people in the world lives with HIV, in 2016, and around 1 million people died of AIDS related deceases.

Read their press release on WCG.

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The problem with HIV is its ever mutating way to make drugs ineffective, requiring constant new drugs to combat the virus.

Phase 1, Launched in 2005, the project team identified thousands of potentially promising candidates for lab experiments in phase 1. Thanks to a large array of volunteering users donating their spare computer time to the project, they computed a staggering 353 958 years of computer time!

And they are still performing work on Phase 1 every day!

In Phase 2, launched in 2015, the project is performing experiments of the potential candidates from phase 1. As the experiments in labs are both time consuming and costly, it's impossible to do these tests in labs on the many thousands of candidates found.

This is where we are today, and the researcher will now continue with the next stage as reported.

Our team is processing the current type of work units through World Community Grid as quickly as possible. Once these work units are completed, we plan to write a paper about the process, including its strengths, limitations, and lessons learned.

We are also planning to use World Community Grid’s computing power to analyze new compounds that are important to our work with the HIVE Center at the Scripps Research Institute. This work will begin after we run a sample of these new compounds on our own grid computing network.

Sources

• FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2 Prepares for A New Stage
• FightAIDS@Home on Scripps Research Institute
• FightAIDS@Home on WCG

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