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WCG meaning in Community ?

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Answer: What is World Community Grid mean?

World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle scientific research projects that benefit humanity. Launched on November 16, 2004, it was co-ordinated by IBM with client software currently available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android operating systems. In September 2021, it was announced that IBM transferred ownership to the Krembil Research Institute.

World Community Grid utilizes unused processing power of consumer devices (PC's, Laptops, Android Smartphones, etc) to analyse data created by the research groups that participate in the grid. WCG projects have analysed data related to the human genome, the human microbiome, HIV, dengue, muscular dystrophy, cancer, influenza, Ebola, Zika virus, virtual screening, rice crop yields, clean energy, water purification and COVID-19, among other research areas.

There are currently 5 active projects and 25 completed projects. Several of these projects have published peer-reviewed papers based on the analysis of the data generated by WCG. These include an OpenZika project paper on the discovery of a compound (FAM 3) that inhibits the NS3 Helicase protein of the Zika virus, thus reducing viral replication by up to 86%; a FightAIDS@home paper on the discovery of new vulnerabilities on the HIV-1 Capsid protein which may allow for a new drug target; a FightAIDS@home paper on new computational drug discovery techniques for more refined and accurate results.

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