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RNA World is a distributed supercomputer that uses Internet-connected computers to advance RNA research. This system is dedicated to identify, analyze, structurally predict and design RNA molecules on the basis of established bioinformatics software in a high-performance, high-throughput fashion. In contrast to classical bioinformatic approaches, RNA World does not rely on individual desktop computers, web servers or supercomputers. Instead, it represents a continuously evolving cluster of world-wide distributed machines of any type. As such, RNA World is very heterogenous and, depending on the sub-project, currently addresses Internet-connected computers running Linux, Windows and OSX operating systems -- your computer could be an important part of it. The fact that hardware and electricity costs are shared among the volunteer contributors raises the possibility of performing analyses which under economical aspects would often not be fundable. In return, RNA World is not for profit, exclusively uses open source code and will make all its results available to the public.

In its present form, RNA World runs a fully automated high-throughput analysis software version of Infernal, a program originally developed in Sean Eddys laboratory for the systematic identification of non-coding RNAs. The goal of this RNA World sub-project is to systematically identify all known RNA family members in all organisms known to date and make the results available to the public in a timely fashion. With your help, we also aim at supplying established bioinformatic databases such as Rfam with our results to help reduce their maintenance costs.

In contrast to other distributed and grid computing projects, RNA World is currently developing generalized user interfaces that, in parallel to the projects our own research team is following up, allow non-associated individual scientists to submit their own projects in a manner similar to using a web server interface - of course, free of cost.

For the VM application, a BOINC client 7.2.33 and VirtualBox 4.0.10 is required. Also this application only runs at x64 computers.

RNA World
Start 2009
End
Status beta
Admin Christian Beer
Institution Rechenkraft.net e.V.
Country Germany
Area Biology
Apps
Win cmsearch 0.32
cmsearch S 0.32
Linux cmsearch 0.31
cmsearch S 0.31
Mac cmsearch 0.30
cmsearch S 0.30
64bit cmsearch 0.32 [win/linux]
cmsearch S 0.32 [win/linux]
cmcalibrate 0.22 [linux]
cmalign 0.01 [linux]
cmbuild 0.01 [linux]
cmsearch VM (VirtualBox) 1.19/1.18 (vbox64) [win/linux/mac]
PS3
ATI
CUDA
Intel
Android
RPi
NCI
System-Specs
VRAM SP DP
RAM >300MB - 1GB
Runtime 1min - 500h
HDD 21MB
Traffic dl/ul MB / kb
Deadline 10 days
Checkpoints