Donate Computer Time To Find A Cancer Cure
Published 19/03/2002

Mothers and girlfriends who continually complain that the young men in their lives are too busy with their 'useless toys' of computers will find a new University research Website intriguing.

Anyone, anywhere with access to a personal computer, could help find a cure for cancer by giving 'screensaver time' from their computers to the world's largest ever computational project, which will screen 3.5 billion molecules for cancer-fighting potential.

The project is being carried out by Oxford University's Centre for Computational Drug Discovery - a unique 'virtual centre' funded by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR), which is based in the Department of Chemistry and linked with international research groups via the world-wide web - in collaboration with United Devices, a US-based distributed computing technology company, and Intel, who are sponsoring the project. Over 1.25 million computers world-wide are running the project

All you have to do is give 'screensaver time' from your computer to the project. If you want to take part, you will need to download the screensaver and, that's it really. It will do the work while you're away from your PC. Contact the website for more detail.: www.chem.ox.ac.uk/curecancer.html

 

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