Folding @ Home
We've set up a team on Folding @ Home. For those that don't know what this is:
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What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
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Basically your computer does research while it's idle. If you leave your computer on a lot, the least you can do is allow the electricity you are sucking to do something good. It won't interfere when you are actually using your computer. It works on just about every computer.
Visit this link to sign up on our team. Our team number is 72059
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=72059
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What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
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Basically your computer does research while it's idle. If you leave your computer on a lot, the least you can do is allow the electricity you are sucking to do something good. It won't interfere when you are actually using your computer. It works on just about every computer.
Visit this link to sign up on our team. Our team number is 72059
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=72059
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