Nutritious Rice for the World

Nutritious Rice for the World was a project of the World Community Grid for distributed computing. The goal of the project was to improve the rice yield by higher-yielding and more resistant rice strains can be specifically bred.

The project tried to predict the protein structures of the major rice strains. To determine the structure of proteins is a highly compute -intensive process. The Computational Biology Research Group at the University of Washington has developed cutting-edge software to meet this challenge. However, there are thousands of different proteins that were found in the rice, so that much computational time needed to be invested in order to predict the protein structures.

To participate had after registering on the website of the World Community Grid, a small program (called "Grid Client" ) can be installed, which is available for Windows, Linux and Mac under the BOINC software. This program then moved from the site, a task package.

The results of the calculations will be provided in the public domain of research.