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IBM to Help Defeat Cancer
Nycil George, Jul 21, 2006 1810 hrs ISTResearchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey are working with IBM to launch a project aimed at advancing cancer.
Researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey are working with IBM to launch a project aimed at advancing cancer research using the massive computational power of World Community Grid.
According to the sources, "Help Defeat Cancer" is the third project to use the enormous computational power offered by World Community Grid, which is the world's largest humanitarian grid housing a virtual supercomputer. The Help Defeat Cancer project is expected to help researchers better understand the underlying mechanisms of cancer in order to improve treatment and therapy planning for cancer patients.
It is expected that the Help Defeat Cancer project, which is being powered by IBM's World Community Grid, will take approximately three months to complete. The project will give researchers an opportunity to analyze large numbers of cancer tissue micro array simultaneously, allowing multiple experiments to be conducted in shorter periods of time.
Dr. David J. Foran, lead researcher and professor of pathology and director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and co-director of the Immunohistochemistry shared resources program of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey said, "As a result of the 'Help Defeat Cancer' project, World Community Grid makes it possible to analyze in one hour the number of specimens that would approximately take 160 years to complete using a traditional computer. Without World Community Grid, TMAs are processed in individual or small batches that are analyzed on standard computers."
Researchers believe the speed and sophistication of World Community Grid could make it possible to detect and track subtle changes in measurable parameters that could facilitate the discovery of prognosis clues, which are not apparent by human inspection or traditional analysis alone. Researchers have already created a web-based, robotic prototype to automatically image, analyze, archive, and share tissue microarrays.
The "Help Defeat Cancer" project will begin with the analysis of breast cancer TMAs followed by an analysis involving head and neck cancers.
Through World Community Grid anyone can donate the idle and unused time on their computer by downloading World Community Grid's free software and registering at www.worldcommunitygrid.org. Fast, easy, safe, and secure, more than 200,000 individuals are now volunteering power from more than 360,000 computers to advance Cancer research through World Community Grid. Computers running Windows, Linux, or Mac operating systems can all participate in World Community Grid.
The "Help Defeat Cancer" project is an extension of two other National Institutes of Health funded projects that Dr. Foran leads. All three projects are collaborative efforts among researchers at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Researchers are expected to have unparalleled insight into patient populations that are likely to respond to a given treatment regimen while also providing information needed for future drug design. To date, only a fraction of the known biomarkers have been examined. The long-term goal of the cancer community is to create a library of biomarkers and their expression patterns so in the future it will be possible for physicians to consult the library to assist in the diagnostic process and provide effective treatments for patients. The project should give researchers an improved understanding of cancer biology and could uncover new sub-classifications of cancers that will point to new and more effective courses of treatment.
According to the sources, "Help Defeat Cancer" is the third project to use the enormous computational power offered by World Community Grid, which is the world's largest humanitarian grid housing a virtual supercomputer. The Help Defeat Cancer project is expected to help researchers better understand the underlying mechanisms of cancer in order to improve treatment and therapy planning for cancer patients.
It is expected that the Help Defeat Cancer project, which is being powered by IBM's World Community Grid, will take approximately three months to complete. The project will give researchers an opportunity to analyze large numbers of cancer tissue micro array simultaneously, allowing multiple experiments to be conducted in shorter periods of time.
Dr. David J. Foran, lead researcher and professor of pathology and director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and co-director of the Immunohistochemistry shared resources program of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey said, "As a result of the 'Help Defeat Cancer' project, World Community Grid makes it possible to analyze in one hour the number of specimens that would approximately take 160 years to complete using a traditional computer. Without World Community Grid, TMAs are processed in individual or small batches that are analyzed on standard computers."
Researchers believe the speed and sophistication of World Community Grid could make it possible to detect and track subtle changes in measurable parameters that could facilitate the discovery of prognosis clues, which are not apparent by human inspection or traditional analysis alone. Researchers have already created a web-based, robotic prototype to automatically image, analyze, archive, and share tissue microarrays.
The "Help Defeat Cancer" project will begin with the analysis of breast cancer TMAs followed by an analysis involving head and neck cancers.
Through World Community Grid anyone can donate the idle and unused time on their computer by downloading World Community Grid's free software and registering at www.worldcommunitygrid.org. Fast, easy, safe, and secure, more than 200,000 individuals are now volunteering power from more than 360,000 computers to advance Cancer research through World Community Grid. Computers running Windows, Linux, or Mac operating systems can all participate in World Community Grid.
The "Help Defeat Cancer" project is an extension of two other National Institutes of Health funded projects that Dr. Foran leads. All three projects are collaborative efforts among researchers at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Researchers are expected to have unparalleled insight into patient populations that are likely to respond to a given treatment regimen while also providing information needed for future drug design. To date, only a fraction of the known biomarkers have been examined. The long-term goal of the cancer community is to create a library of biomarkers and their expression patterns so in the future it will be possible for physicians to consult the library to assist in the diagnostic process and provide effective treatments for patients. The project should give researchers an improved understanding of cancer biology and could uncover new sub-classifications of cancers that will point to new and more effective courses of treatment.
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