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title: "Help Conquer Cancer"
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Help Conquer Cancer is a volunteer computing project that runs on the BOINC platform. It is a joint project of the Ontario Cancer Institute and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. It is also the first project under World Community Grid to run with a GPU counterpart.


== Project Purpose ==
The goal is to enhance the efficiency of protein X-ray crystallography, which will enable researchers to determine the structure of many cancer-related proteins faster.  This will lead to improving the understanding of the function of these proteins, and accelerate the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.


== See also ==
BOINC
List of volunteer computing projects
World Community Grid


== References ==


== External links ==
Help Conquer Cancer Archived 2010-01-17 at the Wayback Machine