Docking@Home Project History

January 2009: New Year and new Webpage. Many many kudos to Brian and his team for this excellent piece of art!
January 2009: A new protein is ready for D@H, the p38 alpha!!!

September 2008: Docking@Home opens the creation of new accounts to all and moves to beta phase. Finally we are crunching science! Our first target is the HIV protease. Kudos to Trilce for her great effort during the summer!
November 2008: D@H starts the distribution of a new protein, the Trypsin. Roger is monitoring our results from U. Michigan and, at UDel, Ramie joins us to review the science.
November 2008: D@H finally has a screensaver. Look at our YouTube video. Kudos to Kevin and Robert for the great screensaver and the professional YouTube voice-over.
November 2008: D@H at the Supercomputing 2008 conference. Yes, we are still crunching, and this time we crunch science!

June 2007: The D@H team moves to the University of Delaware. The project is suspended for relocation. The time goes by too slowly without D@H!
November 2007: D@H at the Supercomputing 2007 conference. The project is suspended but we still present our work at the booth of the University of Delaware. A lot of people encourage us to get back on our legs!
December 2007: New servers and new start for D@H in alpha phase. Jason helps a lot with the installation.

September 2006: D@H is in alpha phase. A lot of challenges for Andre, Richard, Trilce, Karina, and Michela, the D@H team at UTEP.
October 2006: Cori and Atomic Booty design the D@H logo for our old Website. Great logo!
November 2006: D@H at the Supercomputing 2006 conference. Posters of the project are presented at the UTEP booth. A lot of questions and interest!

January 2005: Michela moves to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) as an assistant professor and starts designing Docking@Home based on her initial idea in the paper published in 2004.
September 2005: The National Science Foundation awards funding for developing D@H to Michela and a team of other three investigators. With this valuable financial support, the D@H adventure can finally start!

2004: Michela put aside the docking idea to implement Predictor@Home (the first BOINC project). With Chahm An and Charlie Brooks, she took part in CASP 2004. The team was invited to present the idea of using volunteerʼs computers at the CASP meeting in Gaeta, Italy in December 2004.

Spring 2003: Michela Taufer works on a docking algorithm using CHARMM with Mike Crowley and Dan Price at the Scripps Research Institute under the supervision of Charlie Brooks. The algorithm is finished in fall and the team publish a paper titled: “Study of an Accurate and Fast Protein-Ligand Docking Algorithm based on Molecular Dynamics”. The main idea was to use idle cycles for protein-ligand docking.