Nalos Surith Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Our goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." 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, perhaps not surprisingly, 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, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease. What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease. For those of you who have the computing power please join to help the process to understand Folding. It is one of those things that can help us evolve in our quest for knowledge and true health. To Get Folding@Home or to Understand more about Folding@Home Click Here http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atinymonkey Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 It's ok thanks, we have a few threads and members trying to recruit already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Yeah, there's a load of threads on this all over the place. Will find some linkage in a bit if i can be bothered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalos Surith Posted November 23, 2004 Author Share Posted November 23, 2004 Found some: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4941 http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7116 SFN Folding Team http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=40636 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 If this keeps up we'll have to add @home to the word censor list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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