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Folding@Home
What are proteins and why do they "fold"?
Proteins are biology's workhorses.
Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function,
they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and
fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, when
proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known
diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.
*Information above taken from the main Folding@Home page.
So download the Folding@Home program and run it on your computer
to help in this important research. This will allow your computer to study protein folding and help find a cure. It won't affect your computer's performance, as it runs in the background
and only uses the CPU when no other programs are running.
Stanford has released the 2nd generation folding client for video cards. The GPU2 client runs on newer cards by ATI & NVIDIA. My GTX260 is easily turning
in close to 6000 points per day. Read the FAQ and start putting you video card to use folding.
You can also fold on a Playstation 3. Read the FAQ on Stanford's site for more information on how to turn your game console into a medical research machine.
A list of my stats are here or here, both sites show how much work my computers have been doing.
I have been running the Folding@Home program for over six years and a while back started my own team. My previous stats are listed here.
You can fold for a specific team for some friendly competition or just run it anonymous. My team number is 45966.
Digital Wreckage - 45966
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ABOUT
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Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
If you have any questions regarding this site, contact me.
Last Updated 10-01-08
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