Vieles ist da noch ziemlich buggy (Links zur Webseite, Wiki usw.) und das Forum mit Spam verseucht.
Das Projekt berechnet Proteine, die synthetisch um Funktionen erweitert wurden. Das Projekt selbst schreibt hier hier:
iGEM is an international student competition in Synthetic Biology. This is a fairly new field of biology aiming to implement artificial functions into organisms turning them into biological machines. Each year student teams from all over the world are challenged to develop new ideas for projects as diverse as using bacteria to degrade waste, produce electricity or detect dangerous chemicals.
The design of organisms with new functions requires substantial modelling exceeding the computing power of individual computers by far. With the support of volunteers, the platform iGEM@home may help iGEM Teams to realize computing tasks that arise during their projects and enable them to conduct novel approaches in Synthetic Biology.
