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Folding@home BAIC
Does anyone do or want to do a Folding@home team?
If people don't know what folding is, here's what is posted on their page:
Here is the link about it http://folding.stanford.edu/
Basically Stanford uses this software to distribute to the public to help fold protiens which can then find some of the diseases out there. One of my friends even runs it on his PS3.
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If people don't know what folding is, here's what is posted on their 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.
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.
Basically Stanford uses this software to distribute to the public to help fold protiens which can then find some of the diseases out there. One of my friends even runs it on his PS3.
iClub Team is # 160622
Just add that number in to join the iClub team
I can only imagine how many times its been said before, but I thought this was going to be about laundry, I was thinking "I do that all the time! I can join a team??" Go me. 
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How do I enable this on my PS3?
This guy is building a super computer to fold. Interesting to read his blog.
http://atlasfolding.com/?page_id=148
This guy is building a super computer to fold. Interesting to read his blog.
http://atlasfolding.com/?page_id=148
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How do I enable this on my PS3?
This guy is building a super computer to fold. Interesting to read his blog.
http://atlasfolding.com/?page_id=148
This guy is building a super computer to fold. Interesting to read his blog.
http://atlasfolding.com/?page_id=148
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