bwalker
06-11-2007, 12:59 AM
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 through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
To get started go to http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html and download the proper client for you. If you need help send me a pm and i will help you. I am also going to write an faq for Dual core rigs.
Set up your username and then for team put in 75768
There you have it you will now be part of the Exophase.com Folding@Home Team
(I am looking into a way to track the progress for each member i will let you know when i figure it out. I know i can do it through their website but i want to find a more automatic way of doing it. Also x3sphere i think we might be able to start a folding team area somewhere in the forum to keep all the folding threads or posts in one area)
View our team page here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=75768
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 through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
To get started go to http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html and download the proper client for you. If you need help send me a pm and i will help you. I am also going to write an faq for Dual core rigs.
Set up your username and then for team put in 75768
There you have it you will now be part of the Exophase.com Folding@Home Team
(I am looking into a way to track the progress for each member i will let you know when i figure it out. I know i can do it through their website but i want to find a more automatic way of doing it. Also x3sphere i think we might be able to start a folding team area somewhere in the forum to keep all the folding threads or posts in one area)
View our team page here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=75768