What do you think helps more to fight the diseases?
A project like rosetta@home using CPU power or donating money to for instance cancer research groups?

In my opinion the CPU helps more because it actually does research and not just finances research like donations do. Furthermore you have a more "continuous" feeling of helping. Plus you get many updates about what happens with the data and results.

What do you all think.

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What do you think helps more to fight the diseases?
A project like rosetta@home using CPU power or donating money to for instance cancer research groups?

When you give money to a charity, you don't know where it goes or what is done with it. Was it used to pay the people that stand behind the 800 number to accept the money? Was it used to buy the PC that such a person uses to track the money I donate? Was it used to pay for the phones and tolls of the 800 number? Was it used to pay for advertising to promote the fact that there is an 800 where you can call to donate??

The answer there is always yes. Some portion of your donation (in some cases MUCH of your donation) went to all such overhead expenses.

With CPU, I've funded no such overhead. The project exists with or without me. I take it or leave it. I don't have to question how they've spent my money, nor the salary level of their CEO or spokesperson.

HOWEVER: There are some methods of research that might be expected to produce results much sooner than Rosetta is likely to do. So, as with many things in science and medicine, it pays to hedge your bets.

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What do you think helps more to fight the diseases?
A project like rosetta@home using CPU power or donating money to for instance cancer research groups?

When you give money to a charity, you don't know where it goes or what is done with it.

Feet1st,
That is almost exactly what I say in my profile. But I also donate to a medical charity that gives help directly to people suffering from MS. This is matched by the company I work for. For me I'm enjoying helping directly with the cutting edge research but I know some people with MS (including a friend and my sister-in-law) who need help coping with the disease right now which Rosetta can't do. Some of the money I give to the MS Society goes to research as well. I guess it all depends on your personal situation. I do both

Bill

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What do you think helps more to fight the diseases?
A project like rosetta@home using CPU power or donating money to for instance cancer research groups?

In my opinion the CPU helps more because it actually does research and not just finances research like donations do. Furthermore you have a more "continuous" feeling of helping. Plus you get many updates about what happens with the data and results.

What do you all think.

Actually, people not being so bloody stupid as to smoke would probably be the best way to help the majority of diseases, followed by the british not binge drinking ;-) then eating healthily.
So I recon lifstyle would be the best way to fight diseases, then followed by money (since money is also involved in donating CPU time, money = money, CPU time = monety + CPU time)

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Just copying a previous post of mine into this more relevant thread:

How about just plain-old monetary donations?

Do you have some ideas on how to turn money into users?

Well, the obvious idea, would be to allow for people who don't have the time or computer knowledge or inclination (e.g. security concerns) to run DC on their own computers, to contribute *funds* to a suitable legal entity (association) to buy hardware and cover the expenses, so that suitable "hosts" (people *with* time and knowledge to run stable DC platforms) can do that on behalf of the whole group / association.

Doing a little searching, I came up with "Project Hope" for life sciences
http://www.tdprojecthope.com/?q=node

or "Crunchenstein" for SETI folks
http://www.crunchenstein.org/articles.html

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I think thaht both are important ..

All us or important because we help the scientist, we help the research, its a thing that always must do at home !!!

But when all the Rosetta community found a possible architecture of protein, it must be tested, and to launch this new protein, money is necessary for the laboratery, so i think that finaly the sientist need more money because with our help, there are more protein sequences to test ..

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