{"id":35,"date":"2006-07-23T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/23\/new-york-habitat-cancer-research-philanthropy-meets-biology\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:46:27","slug":"new-york-habitat-cancer-research-philanthropy-meets-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/23\/new-york-habitat-cancer-research-philanthropy-meets-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Habitat & Cancer Research: Philanthropy meets Biology!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since May, 2001, New York Habitat has donated \u201ccomputer time\u201d to a collaborative grid computer cancer research project involving Oxford University, The National Foundation for Cancer Research, and United Devices.<\/p>\n

Our specialty in renting apartments online requires a lot of computers and servers<\/strong>. As we grew and expended our activities to France (Paris and the South of France), then to London, we realized that all these computers and notebooks would be a great asset for this worthy\u00a0philanthropic project.<\/p>\n

Initially, our company<\/a> contributed cpu time of two office computers.\u00a0 We now share use of all our office computers and generate more than 283 processor-hours per day<\/strong>. Our contribution places us in 180th position among 1.3 million members<\/strong> in this project.<\/p>\n

In just 5 years, 534,500 hours of total cpu (processor) time has been donated to cancer research–equivalent to 1 computer running 24\/7 for over 61 years!<\/strong><\/p>\n

An automated investigative process called \u201cLigandFit\u201d examines the binding characteristics of ligands to protein molecules. ( a ligand is a small molecule that binds to a particular larger molecule. ) This is useful to identify potential cancer drug therapies.<\/p>\n

In the next couple of months, as soon as new computers becomes available, we will also contribute to a new project for research against AIDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you would like to participate in this project using your computer at home or at work, we invite you to join New York Habitat’s Team.<\/p>\n

You can obtain more information and download the software to join cancer research and then ask to join our team (New York Habitat<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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