Jester Spearmann Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 (edited) Folding@Home << LinkI was thinking of setting up an ordo team for thisbut I would like feedback first (as well as permission) to use the group name. Information from the main page.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 throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. Edited January 18, 2009 by Jester Spearmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sekonda Huet Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I already fold on my PS3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygna Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I'll give it a shot! Always like helping in the name of science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Hultcrantz Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Sorry, I'm already signed up with Techreport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester Spearmann Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) Okay since people are interested, I went ahead and set us up. our group id number is. 158352enter that into your config panel :)Team Page Edited January 18, 2009 by Jester Spearmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
