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http://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/index.php
RNA World is a distributed supercomputer that usesInternet-connected computers to advance RNA research. This system isdedicated to identify, analyze, structurally predict and design RNAmolecules on the basis of established bioinformatics software in ahigh-performance, high-throughput fashion.
In contrast to classical bioinformatic approaches, RNA Worlddoes not rely on individual desktop computers, web servers orsupercomputers. Instead, it represents a continuously evolving clusterof world-wide distributed machines of any type. As such, RNA World isvery heterogenous and, depending on the sub-project, currentlyaddresses Internet-connected computers running Linux, Windows and OSXoperating systems - your computer could be an important part of it. Thefact that hardware and electricity costs are shared among the volunteercontributors raises the possibility of performing interesting analyseswhich under economical aspects would often not be affordable. Inreturn, RNA World is not for profit, exclusively uses open source codeand will make its results available to the public.
In its present form, RNA World runs a fully automated high-throughput analysis software version of Infernal1, a program suite originally developed in Sean Eddys laboratoryfor the systematic identification of non-coding RNAs. The goal of thisRNA World sub-project is to systematically identify all known RNAfamily members in all organisms known to date and make the resultsavailable to the public in a timely fashion. With your help, we alsoaim at supplying established bioinformatic databases such as Rfam2 with our results to help reduce their future maintenance costs.
In contrast to other distributed and grid computing projects,the RNA World developers are currently designing generalized userinterfaces that, in parallel to the projects our own research team isfollowing up, allow non-associated individual scientists to submittheir own projects in a manner similar to using a web server interface- of course, free of cost.
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