[Community Project] Protein Folding - Folding@Home Team

halojunkie · Nov 15, 2007

This is a community project I am trying to put together. Protein Folding; what is it?

Protein Folding is what happens in your cells. The DNA in your cells' nucleus essentially contains the instructions for creating the proteins necessary by the body. Below is taken from http://folding.stanford.edu/ the main web page for it. It explains the basics. Keep reading below for the details on this project.

http://folding.stanford.edu/ said:

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.
What have we done so far?
We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, on our Awards page, or go directly to our Results page.

Want to learn more?
Click on the links on the left for downloads or more information. You can also download our Executive Summary, which is a PDF suitable for distribution. Also, you can learn more by watching recent seminars (Stanford BMI ; Xerox PARC). One can also help by donating funds to the project, via Stanford University.
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This community is to create a "donor team" and try to achieve a high listing. It will bring people more people to our website because we are doing something for medicine. The team name is Sythe.Org Folding Team. The team number is 93673. Our current homepage is http://ballerpride.net

Thanks for looking. Everything you need to know is on http://folding.stanford.edu/

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