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So, anyone either already do this or is interested - If so I'd be willling to start a team and place all my folders on it.
Alright, if you haven't heard about it, this is how it works: "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, 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."
We could start a Team GTP and fold!
If you're interested - Just tell me here. It doesn't slow down your computer at all, the thread priotity is idle, so anything else you do will have priority, in turn not slowing down your system! I do this on all my computers and have no difference in speed. It only takes a few MB in RAM, and that's it.
Any more questions or whatever - I would like to have a few people if we were to start this thing. There is also sort of a competition involved. Even though folding isn't for winning this little game deal, it keeps it interesting and kind of exciting. You get WUs for how much folding you do, which is based on how fast you completed your steps. The faster, the more WUs. There are teams with total points, single members and everything. It's pretty cool - And for good cause!
If you are interested, I'll give info on how to start.
Alright, if you haven't heard about it, this is how it works: "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, 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."
We could start a Team GTP and fold!
If you're interested - Just tell me here. It doesn't slow down your computer at all, the thread priotity is idle, so anything else you do will have priority, in turn not slowing down your system! I do this on all my computers and have no difference in speed. It only takes a few MB in RAM, and that's it.
Any more questions or whatever - I would like to have a few people if we were to start this thing. There is also sort of a competition involved. Even though folding isn't for winning this little game deal, it keeps it interesting and kind of exciting. You get WUs for how much folding you do, which is based on how fast you completed your steps. The faster, the more WUs. There are teams with total points, single members and everything. It's pretty cool - And for good cause!
If you are interested, I'll give info on how to start.
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