IBM's World Community Grid (WCG) is helping researchers from three leading scientific institutions who are collaborating to explore the proteins in the human microbiome.
Trillions of bacteria live inside as well as on our bodies. Much is still to be learned about their impact on our health.
It is strongly speculated that the microbiome contributes to our health as well as towards developing certain diseases from certain cancers to Parkinson's. However, this field has been largely unstudied.
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WCG, and it's volunteers, have enabled researchers to use the distributed computing platform to accelerate this initial step of predicting protein structures of the human microbiome. The long term benefit of such research could lead to new and effective methods of tackling a variety of disease from Alzheimer's to various Cancers.
Dr. Tommi Vatanen, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, discussed the effect of Microbiome on our health here: 
For more information about this project please read the following link
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/mip1/overview.do
To join WCG and use your computer to help with medical research please use the following link
https://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=715793
This will be my first post about the Microbiome as well as citizen science projects such as WCG where you can get involved with Science.