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title: "Help Conquer Cancer"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_Conquer_Cancer"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T04:12:04.139358+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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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.
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== Project Purpose ==
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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.
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== See also ==
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BOINC
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List of volunteer computing projects
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World Community Grid
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Help Conquer Cancer Archived 2010-01-17 at the Wayback Machine |