11-18-2012, 03:12 AM
M A V I C wrote:
I haven't researched how the data has been used in a while, but has it all still been to the benefit of for-profit drug companies?
No, and it never was. All of the data is available to other researchers. Some is embargoed from free access for the year after it is published due to the agreement between NIH, etc and the journal publishers. But most researchers have access through their institution to the journals. Some datasets are available for download from an online server, others by request from the large archive of results on request to the Pande Group. The question is answered in this PDF - FoldingFAQ. The research is also not just done at Stanford, over half a dozen university labs around the world are also associated with Folding@Home.
Speedy wrote: All because the project can't bring a server back on line? Sad.
The server involved is running legacy code from at least a couple years ago. It was the last one using that code to handle a small group of projects using an older version of the folding core than is used by the rest of the Windows and Linux folders. They recently moved many of their servers to new equipment. From having to support a number of legacy servers myself in the past, I suspect some resource they needed to rebuild this server after a crash failed to make the move. Maybe they will be able to recreate the missing item, at least they have not yet made a final announcement that it will not be back.