Suggestion: Driverheaven Folding@Home Team

digerati · May 10, 2005, 01:33 AM

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.
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It's a good cause that works off of unused or idle clock cycles so it won't hurt anyone, it's free, and it takes up negligible HD space.

***craig5320*** · May 10, 2005, 02:14 AM

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Zardon · May 11, 2005, 02:13 AM

lol nice ancient links craig, one even in the moderator forum, thats helpful

Its a nice suggestion aaron and one im asked occasionally, but i have to decline, not because I dont agree with folding, its a worthy cause. We dont have the time or resources to organise, promote and maintain it, and I dont think our membership are on an overall level that interested in doing it. Its one of those things tech sites do, with what seems more emphasis on beating another tech site than actually the good it does

If you want to fold please feel free, but there will be not be any DH folding team in the forseeable future.

May 10, 2005, 01:33 AM	#1
digerati Everyones life has worth Join Date: May 2003 Location: My Yellow Bug Posts: 3,779 Rep Power: 0	Suggestion: Driverheaven Folding@Home Team 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. _____________________________________________ It's a good cause that works off of unused or idle clock cycles so it won't hurt anyone, it's free, and it takes up negligible HD space.

May 10, 2005, 02:14 AM	#2
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May 11, 2005, 02:13 AM	#3
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	lol nice ancient links craig, one even in the moderator forum, thats helpful Its a nice suggestion aaron and one im asked occasionally, but i have to decline, not because I dont agree with folding, its a worthy cause. We dont have the time or resources to organise, promote and maintain it, and I dont think our membership are on an overall level that interested in doing it. Its one of those things tech sites do, with what seems more emphasis on beating another tech site than actually the good it does If you want to fold please feel free, but there will be not be any DH folding team in the forseeable future.