Half a million points reached!

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Team Bravo Stats:
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Member Name ~ Points Generated ~ Results Returned

tgeorge1~~~~~~~~~~147,825~~~~~~~~~~1006
ariadneK~~~~~~~~~86,656~~~~~~~~~~~ 232
digitaldoom~~~~~~~ 74,411~~~~~~~~~~~ 332
AutumnStorm~~~~~ 51,565~~~~ ~~~~~~ 235
ThunderBob~~~~~~ 40,956~~~~~~~~~~~300
karen6977 ~~~~~~~~37,857~~~~~~~~~~~ 115
SaintlyNate~~~~~~~ 36,316~~~~~~~~~~ ~ 136
Sherry G~~~~~~~~~~ 23,971~~~~~~~~~~~~72
TotalChaos~~~~~~~~21,152~~~~~~ ~~~~~ 169
JamieB~~~~~~~~~~~20,841~~~~~~~~~~~~98
courtney42~~~~~~~~ 8,352~~~~~~~~~~~~14
consise10 ~~~~~~~~~~2,024~~~~~~~~~~~ ~5
ebezp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~1,065~~~~~~~~~~~~~4
Bavani Naidu~~~~~~~~ 202~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1
Oliviah
studentdk
puven10
sellrealest8
tilde1d
rsurrattjr

Team Total ~~~~~ 553,193 ~~~~~~~2,719
You're amazing, each of you, thank you for your dedication and contribution!!!

The last weeks saw two new members join Bravo,
ebezp aka Simon and rsurrattjr.

In Trée's words;
All are welcome to join us in fighting these horrific diseases. Takes five minutes to download a small device and join Bravo. Two steps. Five minutes. That's it. No more time. No money. No adds. No pop ups. No emails. Just a small screensaver like device that runs in the background. Absolutely, completely secure. Help us help scientists gather the data they need to find drugs and cures for everything from cancer to AIDS to MD. You choose the projects you want to work on. Pick one or pick them all. I've got over 21 years of cpu donation time. I can promise you, whatever concerns you might have about joining, about downloading something onto your computer--I promise--they don't exist. Many who join are computer geeks, the kind of people that wax and polish their computers. If there was even the slightest chance that this device could harm their computer or hurt its performance or compromise data, several million people, with the endorsement of major universities and best selling computer magazines would not endorse nor would they start and recruit teams of their own--yet, they have done both. This project is spearheaded by IBM. If there was a chance that they could get a black eye, do you think they would do it? :-)

In short. Give us five minutes today. Two steps. Five minutes. If you have questions ask. Five minutes to help science. Five minutes to help ourselves. Five minutes to make the world a better place for our children.

Joining really does make a difference.
The following is an extract from the fightAIDS@Home results update.

FightAIDS@Home has given us the ability to classify both protease mutants and potential chemical inhibitors so that the docking calculations that we do in the future will be more targeted and efficient. We will, for instance, be able to use a small set of mutant protease structures to represent a much larger set of HIV mutants in our docking analysis. This will allow us to screen much larger chemical libraries more efficiently, or enable us to use more sophisticated models of the mutant structures, that incorporate flexibility into their representation.
While this is principally a technical break-through, it means that we can get more reliable and meaningful results in the computations that we will now be pursuing. This should speed us to our goal of finding new HIV therapeutics that are effective in the face of drug resistance. These results would not have been possible without the computing resources of the World Community Grid, and the generous support of the FightAIDS@Home volunteers.

Visit the World Community Grid Homepage to download the agent and register, and then join Team Bravo here