Is there a way to actually choose what projects you want to work on and which ones you dont. I want to do more medical research type of projects like medicines and cures. how can you tell what the projects are as you work on them? I am really new to this and though I seem to be up and running, i still dont quite understand which ones do what type of research.

also, the BOINC thing, i have three different companies, predictor@home, rosetta@home, and world community grid. Basically, it does one from each project at a time, where I thought it would just split up the thing between all three of them giving them each 33%.

and last but not least:
Are there other projects out there that you think might be more directed towards my interest as in the medicine and cures besides the ones I am already one?

any help would be greatly appreciate!!!

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Have a look in

How-To: Join Distributed Computing projects that benefit humanity

and

Rosetta@home page at Wikipedia encyclopedia

Currently Rosetta@home is focused on fundamental research and actually improving the software itself, i.e. no work on vaccines or on resolving unknown protein structures runs on BOINC *yet*. They said the expect to run such WUs soon (that was a few months ago). Personally, I'm looking forward for R@H to introduce such work on BOINC.

Currently and for the next few months, everyone in Rosetta team (and we CPU time donors) will be focusing on the bi-annual CASP experiment, which evaluates how good various methods are in predicting the 3D structure of yet unknown proteins.

Btw, these aren't "companies": Rosetta is BakerLab @ University of Washington, Predictor is a Lab at The Scripps Research Institute and WCG is an IBM philanthropic initiative, where IBM pays the telecom+hardware bills and decisions about which projects to sponsor are taken by an advisory board.

There have been a few more similar projects too, some now defunct.

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