The Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL) is a nifty distributed computing project used to find drug treatments for infectious diseases, much like SETI@home is used to find evidence of other intelligent life in the universe.
The Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL) works to discover drug candidates against Anthrax, Smallpox, and SARS and other potentially devastating infectious diseases.
By simply downloading no cost, non-intrusive software application, you can contribute the idle time available on your computer to emerging microbial diseases and other pathogens that significantly impact global health even when not connected to the Internet.
It works best on Windows, but you can get it for Mac OS X, Linux, and some other operating systems that I know nothing about. My system hung up a little while I was trying to get it configured, but it looks to be okay now. You can sign up as an individual or as part of a team (or not at all, it seems) and they keep track of what each user has contributed to the project (time towards the project, viable candidates, and some other stuff).
