Well here is s a BOINC project. dodo@home

We're embarking on one heck of a journey, one with a thousand steps... our ultimate aim is to bring the Dodo back from extinction. Using our unique software and your help, we will decode the genome AND many, many others along the way. Join us and let’s make history! Together, we will make the saying 'as dead as a dodo' a thing of the past.

https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/

In reply to Bill Freauff's message of 8 Nov 2024:

Well here is s a BOINC project. dodo@home

We're embarking on one heck of a journey, one with a thousand steps... our ultimate aim is to bring the Dodo back from extinction. Using our unique software and your help, we will decode the genome AND many, many others along the way. Join us and let’s make history! Together, we will make the saying 'as dead as a dodo' a thing of the past.

https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/

Looks very interesting, but until the project shows up on the official BOINC Science projects page, as well as the different stats pages, I'm not going to join the project.

After having a mail conversation with Jay, on the project, I decided to join the project. New work probably at the end of this week.

Worth knowing about this project:

The company that is behind this project, is "Colossal Biosciences". One of the investors are "In-Q-Tel", the CIA’s venture capital firm which invests in technology.
This is for sure a for profit project, and they will with outmost certainty not share the results freely.

I'm really not sure about this project, and if I really want to be a part of it. Do your own research though, before you join.

Read more:
Bring back the dodo bird? Ambitious plan draws investors and critics

10-days of total silence from the team. No new work despite having promised new work at the end of last week.
Still not added to the BOINC list of Science projects, or to BoincStats.

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 19 Nov 2024:

10-days of total silence from the team. No new work despite having promised new work at the end of last week.
Still not added to the BOINC list of Science projects, or to BoincStats.

Seems appropriate given the name of the project.

Not a word from the Dodo team, for 16 days. A very short project.....

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 25 Nov 2024:

Not a word from the Dodo team, for 16 days. A very short project.....

Post on forum today saying they want to sort out some more of the errors crunchers are experiencing before releasing more work.

In reply to Dave's message of 26 Nov 2024:

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 25 Nov 2024:

Not a word from the Dodo team, for 16 days. A very short project.....

Post on forum today saying they want to sort out some more of the errors crunchers are experiencing before releasing more work.

Thank you Dave. Better late than never, I guess.

Now this is an interesting BOINC project! Always excited to see new projects getting started!

New update today from Dodo@home....

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Wow! Thanks again to everyone for posting their issues, questions and feedback.

Here's where we are as we transition to the holidays:

We've been able to prepare data for a lot more work... to the tune of about 100,000 jobs.

However, as we read some of the more detailed feedback from the experienced contributors, we realized we had missed some really important BOINC-specific steps when developing our initial analysis code.

We've already been working on implementing those steps, but most of the team is on their way to family and friends for the holidays. We'll pick this up next year.

Though while much less important, we do think we've fixed the various website, team and forum issues.

We wish everyone a joyous holiday season and Happy New Year!

This is awesome! Love Genome sequencing as a BOINC application, and these moonshot projects are exactly where volunteer computing can be most helpful.

I've added the project to my crunching list. As others have said, it would be great to add this project to the default projects list in BOINC. I hope the BOINC admins are being helpful to you here!